26 JANUARY 1895, page 7

Some Volumes Of Verse.* Some Little Time Ago, Lord Dufferin,

with his customary wit and point, told the assembled librarians at Belfast that they are a veritable new priesthood, whose function it is to sort out, arrange, and select the......

The Hairy Ainu.* The Hairy Ainu Of The Island Of

Hokkaido (Yezo) are the most primitive and therefore the most interesting savages left to us. The Australians are a more developed race, and have, more- over, certain tribal......