7 JULY 1900, page 30

The Magazines.

THERE is plenty of instruction in the Contemporary Review this month, if there is little entertainment. Mr. Demetrius Boulger on " The Scramble for China " is worth reading. We......

Some Books Of The Week.

Mader this heading me notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Conversations with Prince Bismarck. Edited by Sidney Whitman. (Harper......

The History Of The Baronetage. By Francis W. Pixley. (duck-

worth and Co. 10s. ad. net.)—Mr. Pixley has, we suppose, found a new subject, and has various things to tell his readers which will probably be new to most of them. How many,......

Recollections Of A Lifetime. By General R. Brinkerhoff....

and Co., Cincinnati.)—General Brinkerhoff's narrative illustrates in a very interesting way the versatility of the American citizen. He began life as a schoolmaster, taking......

Paul Of Tarsus. By Thomas Bird. (nelson And Sons. 4s.

6d.) —Mr. Bird has filled in the outlines which we have of the life and work of St Paul, with details gathered from various sources, literary, archological, &c. And he has done......