24 MARCH 1906, page 22

For A Rainy Day.* John Thomas Slum Was A Foolish

man, who once stumbled' into the writing of a very good book. Nollekens and his Times is a masterpiece of its kind, and it proves that the author had qualities of observation......

The German Official Account Of The War In South Africa.*

WITH this admirable translation of the concluding half of the story of the South African War, as compiled under Major Baick in the Historical Section of the Berlin Great General......