4 JANUARY 1896, page 26

Books.

THE AMEER AT HOME.* IF no man is a hero to his valet, no man can remain a stranger to his physician. Mr. John Alfred Gray was surgeon to the Ameer of Afghanistan from 1889-91.......

Mr. Austin Dobson's Ballads.* The Character Of These...

their accompanying illus- trations is sufficiently indicated by the design on the cover, —the shepherdess with her crook, the lover with his lute, and a background of silly......