13 JANUARY 1900, page 20

Gentle Savages.* Here Is A Book Which Might Have Been

written forty years ago. Yet so strong a grip has it upon the reader that its pages might be the impressions of yesterday; so strong a grip have its scenes upon its author that,......

George Selwyn.*

IT is almost better to be known for a dunce than for a wit. A dunce expects nothing of posterity, and may win a higher reputation than he deserves. A wit is secure of misunder-......