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and is reached ho seems to have supped on saw dust washed down with the stalo drippings from Rewards and Feirice. By RUDTAED KIPLING, a common inn. People who Invo' read "The Adventures of John Johns" and remorabor the London: Macmillan & Co. Musing on modern literature a few days ago, theme that runs through its pages must decide and passing in review the principal writers of for themselves whether they want more of it. the day, we filled an idle moment by attempting For ourselves, we cannot represt a regrot to place in order a few who may be admitted as that a publishing house which has sent standing in the forefront. Belosting the novel-out good number well-written only, let anyone of our readers enden and excellent booka should have anything like your the-task for himself. He will find it "The Methods of Mr. Amos" on its list. much more dificult than appears to be

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In Forbidden Seas. By H.J. Snow, F. R. G. 8. | A ROYAL PHYSICIAN'S VIEWS ON A

COMMON. COMPLAINT.. London: Edwia Arnold,

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This work, descriptive of life in the still little known regions of thoBehringeas and the Karile Islands, is a most praiseworthy effort. The author tolls in a most fascinating mannor the story of seal and otter bunting, illustrating the difficul. tice and dangers under which this occupation is carried on, and supplies information about both which is frosh, interesting and instructiva The reader is bound to marval at the persistent

"I feel all floppy" We all know what it peanA. Although there is na sotual disease, there is a mental stlessness and a physical lassitude which is exoedingly onervating,

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By acting on the nervous and physical sides of the caso at first sight. Personal predilec. A Natural Method of Physical Training. Be courage shown by these hunters in the face of the body and, at the same time, improving storm and shipwreck and sudden death, but as the condition of the bloed. Sanastogen foues up koy winds up a watch, and one proceeds with the narrative one realises this system as a something of the fascination which such a life imparts a sense of keen fitnes for physical bolda for those engaged in it. The soal hunter exertion and a vigorous mental alertadas zo that

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Dr. . Quirion, Physician to H.M. the King of Italy, says "I have used Sanstogan with never known an instanes of a sos otter hanter or a sealer stealing a skin, committing a robarked boneft in the case of weakly children, bery or attacking a native. On the other hand, and in convalescence after fong illnesses. I

food," scores of these men have been shot down, whilst consider the preparation n most excellent tonio. engaged in pelagio realing, and murdered while hunting near the land without even a shot being fired in retaliation by those attacked." Since Jack Lendon wrote "The Ses Wolf" probably no book of such interest has beon, written on this subject, and the book under notice has the additional charm of being a purely personal narration of daily avonts. description of the habits of the sen otters and seals is good, and all interested in the saving of these from the great destruction now proceeding will read with pleasure the chapter upon this One closes the book, however brave subject.

tion, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, will decido more often than serious analysis, at any rate in the case of living novel. There are ten chapter and a large number Barrie, Hardy sad Kipling, however, of illustrations in Mr. Checkley's interesting Liste. seem to us to stand by themselves--somewhat book. The object of the author is to enable men sad women to make muscle and to reduce apart from the William de Morgsus, Crocketts, Maurice Hewletts, May Sinclairs, Lacas Maleta, fesh without disting or spparatus. Those of us Bensons, on the English side of the Atlantic who find the daily use of apparatus irksome will welcome the anggestions of Mr Checkley. Here and we have to go to the United States to the American Winston Churchill, Jack London in simple and understandable English, he John Fox, jun., Owen Wister, Henry James, teaches us how to breathe, how to carry and to find men to compare with our own three the body, the fanctions of muscles stalwarte It may

be fatile to attempt joints and how to exercíso there. Thero classification, or бход to determine the is a chapter on the treatment of obesity, place Kipling will hold oventually in the another on training for women, ons on the literature of the period; but whatever our hygiene and training of children which ought personal prejudices or preferences we cannot to be read by all parents, and a lot of useful deny that Kipling is a Master, both in pross and hints and suggestions, which, if followed, would verso, and that his influence has been enormous tend to improve the general health of the in aprending imperial sentiment throughout the community without recourse. to medicines British Empire. In everything he writes, and and doctoring. Some of our readors are underlying everything he writes, there is a desire already aware of the good work that is to animate his fellow-citizens with the patriotism being effected by Hr. Eugene Sandow and his which makes for national greatness. It is not assistants. In a place like Hongkong, where always obvions. Bat it is there nevertheless, there is a tendency for long spalls at a time to and some day it will be acknowledged by the aroid all forms of I calth-giving exertion, with the consequent result that we allow the body to British public and placed to Kipling's credit even

get into an unhealthy condition, often with disas- by his detractors.

"Rewards and Fairies” is a sequel to "Paok trous and permanent effects upon the system, the ef Fook's Hill." Throughout, it displays the hints of Mr. Chockley, whereby those avil touch of the Master. We have seen itstated that effects can be avoided without irksome or unlike most sequelt it surpasses the original, violent exercises, should be particularly wel. For our own part, we cannot make any com- come. In his proface, he writes: Physical parison, for, as it happens, "Pack of Pook's training is 'in the air,' but the observer of cur- HII" is one of the few products of Kipling's rent events in able to discover in reports from tho athletic world that there is something wrong pon which we have not read; but this we own say, that it is quite fit to rank with the best be about most modern methods of training has written. The story of the first steel knife Muscle-moulding schemes that make men die in in Britain, the tales of Drake's development as a middle life may be pictorially interesting bold and daring navigator and defender of and may sound borelo, but they are not English prestigo, the death of King Harold, for that wine average mortal who wishes simply

feel light and strong, and, if the conversion of St. Winifred-all are onl-to onlated to stimulate the youthfal mind, and not be, find himself ready to safely enter the young only. We venture to think a young on any reasonable physical undertaking. The stor will remember more about Talleyrand and author of this book believes that there is more his chief characteristic after reading "A Priest'straining' in a good many popular systems in Spits of Himself" than he would after read-practised in and out of the college gymnasium, ing some people's histories. But there is no need and the method he himself advocates perhaps to go into details. We must refer our readers radically departe from familiar systems." to the book itself, recommending it without reservation As a finish to this note on the work of the Master, we would recommerd parents and teachers to place before the young under their care and training the poem entitled "I" from which we quote the closing

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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtus, Or walk with Kings-ner lose the common

tonch, -If-neither foes nor laring friendacon hurt you,

It all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minuto,

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,

And-which is more-You'll bo a Man, my son

Enail's Wooing. By E, M. SHRYD- KYNNERBLEY. London: Macmillan & Co. Mr. Suayd-Kynnersley, who was an Inspector of Schools, wrote a book af reminiscences sharkful of good stories, and as he is a graceful writer, with a charm alt his own, combining literary allusion with a considerable knowledge of the Swiss Alps, he might be expooted to produce something readable from cover to cover. It would be a mistake to claim for his present rolamo high rank as a novel. But the story is A straightforward one, clean and over tedious. It relates the wooing of a judge's daughter by a rich young barrister, and there are various excursions to Alpine peaks, where the ardour of love is superior to the perils and chills insepar ablo from hill-elimbing. If we might venture upon a comparison, we would say that Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley dons for hill-climbing what the Williamsone hare dono für motoring. We have read few books recently with greater pleasure. Is it just the sort of novel A man or woman choined to ongkong for a year or two would like to take up and read, ne pecially if one had in view the enjoyment of a part of the "home" holiday in the invigorating air of Switzerland.

The Methods of Mr. Ames, By the AUTHOR of "John Johns," London: T. Warner

Laarie.

It is not quite easy to say what were the methods of Mr. Ames nor why he pursued them Almost it rooms as if the author wished to convey the impression that there are no pure wo- men in England-that all have sinned bare fallen from high estate, have lost that quality which wa men are supposed to prize mest highly and which men desire in women, parits. Ames is au Eng Lihmen educated in Rome, sud is a student of art in Florenos whens relativadles in Australia and leaves him a huge fortune. Upon his arriv al in England, he divides his attention between the pursuit of politics and of women. If Eng. lish society is as the auther endeavours to de pict it, then it is roiten to the very one; but we cannot conceive of any soclety which would tol- erate the method of Mr. Amos. He is not a gentleman, and does not bebave se oad "Sex im- paleo"-a euphemism-plays a great part in this farrage of words, whero grammur is violated and good taste is conspicuous by its absence. The reader is carried from chapter, to chapler in breathless hosts, and is lured on by the imminent indiscretion, which never happens, and when the

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a -Shanghai Grifin. By Jax

Lettere of DEVRY. To the title is added the words "and other" exaggerationa" and fross this it may be inferred that the latters are not bond fide descriptions of life in Shanghai. Still they possess that sub stratum of truth which gives force to bissarcasm and picturesqueness to his narrativos. Wibout doubt the sketches are clover. They are well written and bristle with maxims worthy of Mark Twain. The stories and sketches which follow the letters are also good. Some of the nautical tales are "after" W. W. Jacobs, and they are very readable indeed. The price of the. book is $2. Our copy comes from MERSES Buyce & Co.

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with a feeling of regret that tho men who formerly took their lives in Cheir hands in those little known gens for the sake of adorning fair women are rapidly dying out and that hugo organised trasts are getting this adventurous business inte their own hands, doubtless to their own profit, but disastrous to the seals and the otters, to the zen engaged in this occupation, and, above all, perhaps, to the i grond empire that used to breed smok a gallant

stock of sailors.

Mistakes commonly made by Japanese and Chinese in writing and speaking English. By W. B. Masor. Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh.

This is a second and enlarged. edition of a useful little work. In the words of the preface It lea collection of errors commonly made by Japanese, and, almost as largely, by Chinese students in speaking and writing English," Many are derived from efforts to translate literally idioms and ideas which have no equivalents in English. We cominend this little book to the notios of Chinese students of English

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