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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



Popular Hotels in Central London. 



SBHR THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



KINGSLEY HOTEL 



Hart St., Bloomsbury Square, 

 LONDON. 





Telegraphic Addresses— 



Kingsley Hotel, 



"Bookcraft.Westcent, 



London." 



Thackeray Hotel, 



"Thackeray, Westcent, 



London." 



THE 



60NN1NGT0N HOTEL 



(260 Rooms), 



5outb2vrr)ptor) Row, 



--LONDON -- 



OPENED 1911 BY LORD STRATHCONA. 



Room, Attendance 



and 



Table d'hdte 



Breakfast. 



Luncheon, 1/6* 



Room, Attendance 



and 



Table d'hute 



Breakfast. 



Table d'hote Dinner, 2 6. 



First and Second Floor, 5 6 for Room, Attend- 

 ance and Breakfast. 



Luxuriously 



Furnished. 



Winter Garden. 



Lounge. 



Orchestra. 



Night Porters. 



Most centrally situ- 

 ated for Business 

 and Pleasure. 



Smoking Room. 



OPPOSITE THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



THACKERAY HOTEL 



Great Russell St., LONDON. 



These well-appointed and commodious TEMPERANCE 

 HOTELS will, it is believed, meet the requirements, at 

 moderate charges, of those who desire all the conveniences 

 of the larger modern Licensed Hotels. These Hotels have 



Passenger Lifts, Bathrooms on every floor, Lounges, and 



Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard, 



and Smoking Rooms. 



Fireproof Floors, Perfect Sanitation, Telephones, Night 

 Porters. 



Bedroom, Attendance and Table d'hote Breakfast, ! 

 single, from 5/6 to 7/6. 

 With Table d'hdte Dinner, from 8/6. 



Full Tariff and Testimonials on application. 



Confessions of a Tenderfoot. By Ralf Stock. 

 (Grant Richards.) 

 A beautifully bound and illustrated volume 

 containing the experience of an energetic 

 young fellow who left the homeland for 

 Canada, passed through other Colonies and 

 Fiji, and finally ended as a pineapple 

 farmer in Queensland. He does not gloss 

 over the privations and sufferings of 

 pioneer life, and so the book is informing 

 as well as most entertaining. Mr. Stock 

 is a fearless man, an indefatigable travel- 

 ler, and as his only method of progression 

 was by working his way, it can easily be 

 seen that he had plenty of grit. His book 

 is excellent reading throughout. 



' STENOGRAPHY MADE EASY.' 



How many people attempt to learn short- 

 hand and fail? That is an impossible ques- 

 tion to answer. Why they fail is easier of 

 solution. They find it too difficult, too 

 great a tax on memory and time, and above 

 all, they usually come to grief because, al- 

 though they can write shorthand at a fail- 

 speed, they find it impossible to read what 

 they have written. For those who have tried 

 and failed, there is good hope — they may 

 try a new system and succeed. Sir Isaac 

 Pitman's nephew, Mr. Guilbert Pitman, who 

 was for twenty years manager of his uncle's 

 business, and for twenty-eight years wrote 

 Pitman's shorthand, has now abandoned it 

 in favour of Gregg's system, which, he says, 

 is based upon scientific principles, and is, 

 he believes, destined to become the short- 

 hand of the English-speaking people. The 

 ease with which he acquired the system 

 was. he says, almost incredible, and he was 

 surprised at the completeness and brevity of 

 the outlines, and the facility with which 

 they could be written. The absence of '" ex- 

 ceptions to rules," and its logical and practi- 

 cal arrangement, are commending it to an 

 ever-increasing circle of men and women 

 throughout Australasia. It is even easier to 

 read than to write, angles are rare, and 

 there is always only one possible way of 

 writing a word. Users of Gregg hold the 

 world's record for speed and accuracy, but 

 the system can be perfected in half the time 

 taken to acquire those usually attempted. 

 Mr. Gregg is indeed a benefactor to those 

 who must learn stenography, for he has made 

 it so much easier, and more simple than it 

 used to be 



THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX. 



Last month we published a drawing of the 

 Sphinx, which appeared in the foremost 

 weekly illustrated papers in England. It 

 showed pictorially the discoveries said to 

 have been made by a young American pro- 

 fessor. Later advices from London state 

 that, whilst it is generally assumed that the 

 Sphinx has a religious origin, nothing has 

 been added to our knowledge of this riddle 

 of the sands by researches made by the pro- 

 fessor in question. 



