7 JULY 1900, page 19

The Characteristic Fauna Of China.

T HERE is a general impression about Chinese animals, as . about the Chinese people, that they are quaint, in- effectual, and of no particular use except to Chinamen. Whether......

Byzantinism.

M R. FREDERIC HARRISON'S very interesting Rede Lecture on " Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages " affords another instance of the reaction against Gibbon's view of the......