29 AUGUST 1908, page 21

From A Hertfordshire Cottage.*

WHEN a book opens at random at an essay on "The Ways of Wasps," and the author states that you may put your face within a foot of the entrance to a neat, and the wasps flying......

Novels.

SPANISH GOLD.* IN more ways than one Spanish Gold marks a new development in the literary career of Mr. Birmingham. Hitherto his best work, though enlivened by humorous......

The Britains Beyond The Seas.*

MR. WYATT TILBY has set himself an ambitious task, in the prosecution of which he should receive sympathy and encouragement. The famous advice to think Imperially needs to be......