4 JANUARY 1896, page 27

Constantinople.*

A DESCRIPTIVE history of Constantinople has long been wanting to the traveller and student, who, until to-day, has had to depend upon his Murray or his Baedeker abroad, and •......

Mr. Austin Dobson's Ballads.* The Character Of These...

their accompanying illus- trations is sufficiently indicated by the design on the cover, —the shepherdess with her crook, the lover with his lute, and a background of silly......