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well as the real hunt. To please such, a book should 

 be made up of selected charms of the field." 



Thus opens the preface to a pretty volume which 

 written with all of Mr. Van Dyke's facile but keen 

 observation, and in his fluent, lucid, sparkling style 

 is one to fascinate not only the sportsman, but the 

 nature-lover who never carries a gun or follows a dog. 



Without being at all pretentious, this attractive lit- 

 tle volume covers a great deal of ground, and, from its 

 picturesque cover, throughout its well-printed, white 

 laid pages to the end, it is a book of pleasure and a 

 book of profit. To the sportsman these graphic narra- 

 tives and valuable hints from a veteran field-shot must 

 be of rare value, while no man, and perhaps even no 

 woman, who loves the woods and fields and charms of 

 animated nature, could fail to find genuine inspiration 

 and much fresh knowledge of outdoor beauty from a 

 reading of it. (New York: FORDS, HOWARD &' 



HULB'ERT, Publishers. cio.,.gt. top, $1.50.) 



The Century. 



MARION CRAWFORD is writing for The Century Maga- 

 zine a series of papers on Rome and the Vatican for 

 which Andre Castaigne is drawing the illustrations.. 

 These articles will describe unusual features of the 

 Sacred City, and the pictures will include some re- 

 markable restorations of classical scenes. Captain 

 Alfred T. Mahan, the great naval tactician, will also 

 write for the magazine a series of four studies of the 

 naval engagements upon which the fame of Admiral 

 Lord Nelson is founded. Henry M. Stanley will con- 

 tribute a paper on Africa, to be supplemented by arti- 

 cles made up from the diary and journals of the late 

 E. J. Glave, who died a few months ago on the Congo. 



ST. NICHOLAS has secured a series of letters written 

 by Robert Louis Stevenson to a boy relative, describ- 

 ing the author's romantic life in Samoa. 



The Monthly Illustrator and Home and Country for . 

 October is literally packed with fine illustrations. 

 Some of the more prominent of the subjects treated 

 are Cuxhaven to Constantinople, the New Head of the 

 Army, Lost Creek Literary Club, Mysteries of a Sul- 

 tan's Palace, Jean Valjean, and many others. Pub- 

 lished by the Monthly Illustrator Co., New York. 



Review of Reviews. 



The October number of the Review of Reviews 

 has as a frontispiece a good portrait of Sir Cecil 

 Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony and president of the 

 British South Africa Company. The gigantic specu- 

 lation in South African mines has drawn the attention 

 of the world to this almost unknown country. This 

 number of the Review devotes considerable space 

 to foreign matters, some of the leading articles being 

 Matabelaland under the British South African Com- 

 pany, the Maori of New Zealand, the Civil Service 

 Problem in Australasia, and others. The Review of lie- 

 views Co., New York. 



The Cosmopolitan. 



The last of the Jungle Stories by Rudyard Kipling 

 appears in the October Cosmopolitan. Among the 

 other many good features in this number are Cuba's 

 struggle for Freedom, The Greatness of Man, The 

 Fortress of the Centuries and State Universities, The 

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r After a man loses_his ante he goes out in the world 

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