6 APRIL 1901, page 25

Stories From The Wars Of The Greeks And Romans.

Helmet and Spear : Stories from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. (Seeley and Co. 5s.) —" War," says Mr. Church 'in the epilogue of this......

Current Literature.

THE JOURNAL OF THE C.I.V. IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Journal of the C.I.V. in South. Africa. By Major-General W. H. Mackinnon, Commandant of the Corps. (J. Murray. 6s.) —Though not a......

• Life And Sport On The Pacific Coast.

Life and Sport on the Pacific Coast. By H. A. VachelL With Illustrations. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. Vachell has worked as well as fished and hunted on the Pacific Slope,......

The Magazines.

THE April number of the Nineteenth Century is not very interesting. There are no less than five military articles, and the only one of them in which we find anything original is......

Times And In All Places. That At A Certain Time,

when Frederick Temple went up to Oxford, " Balliol gave promise of rivalling Oriel as a chief centre of University scholarship," is not exactly the way in which one would put......