28 FEBRUARY 1891, page 22

On An Ostrich-farm.*

FEW countries have experienced such varied vicissitudes of fortune as South Africa. At one time its inhabitants were confident of realising enormous wealth by sheep-farming, and......

The Dictionary Of National Biography.* Adequately And...

a volume like one of these of the Dictionary of National Biography is by no means an easy task. How are five hundred articles by nearly a hundred different writers to be dealt......