Merry England opens appropriately with a powerful plea for national
holidays, from the pen of Mr. George Saintsbury. The frontispiece is an excellent, etched portrait of Sir John Lubbock. " Master and Man," by Miss Alice Corkran, gives an account of an experiment, and apparently a very successful experiment, made by a French house in enlisting the true sympathies of its employes by giving them a share in the profits of the concern. It has been tried here also, notably by the Speaker, but the success has not been marked. "The Abbot's Gold" is a skilful imitation of the English of the early part of the sixteenth century ; and "A Haunted House" is a ghostly, not to say ghastly story. But these things, to be in- teresting, must be records of real, or at least subjectively real, experiences. We see no editorial voucher for the genuineness of this story.
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