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is from water color, sketched during
a sermon. The story attached to the present
portrait is that it was present to a member OF
his congregation who. at the peril of his own
life had rescued RobertSon's son from before
a runaway team. Robertson desired to reward
the deliverer. who refused all other recognition
save the portrait of the preacher. On returning
from the Highlands in perfect health and VISOr,
Robertson had this daguerreotype taken by the
changes Of life brought it into the shop of an
antiquity dealer at Brighton where, not long
ago, it was found
The poems of the late Lionel Johnson are
TO be collected and published in volume to
which Katharine lyman will contribute pref
ace His prose essays are to nil another Votuihe:
Unless there is much unpublished material OF
extraordinary merit from TINS young man
pen. cannot but feel that these TWO Vol1nlss
will be unnecessary additions 10 the DoohSeAeI
shelf.
When Sir Leslie Stephen. Mr.. Leslie Ste
phen as he then. withdrew from the
edtorshp of the Dictionary OF National BioS-
. raphy il seemed likely that he would give NM
self long rest. But instead he seems 10 nave
been INCREASINGLY busy. He has given us. since
his time became more his own an elaborate
study of the English Utilitarians- Recently ne
has brought out new edition OF MS III
work in volumes. English IhouSht IN the
| Eighteenth Century; ne has contributed
volume on George Eliot to the new series OF the
| "Fnglish Men of Letters" and he IS preparing
a similar study of Hobbies. At the same time ne
has been wiring so many essays that out OF
| them he has been able to make two volumes 70
add to his Studies of a BloSrapher' ana ne IS
at work now upon his "reminiscences OF the
| English men of letters of his time. Altogether
| his activities in the last few years have been
| such as a much younger man might envy
Through the courtesy OF the M it S G4l
| pany we reproduce Sir Leslie stephens latest
| photograph
| Mrs KipIing the mother Of the author has
| Just published with her daughter. Mrs Fleming.
! a little book of poems. Hand in Hand IS us
/ title-not a very good one The frontlsplece'
t,.,I- r.F old lar n
! band bears an attractive design of mother
and daughter seated together on the seashore
/ between palm tree and an oak The mothers
verses occupy about a third of the book, and
many of them have themes derived from India
London critics say that they are of unusual
| value.
What sort of is the man Of the future
| to be?-granted that there be any man at ali
after the War of the Worlds Mr. Benjamin
Kidd, the author Of social Evolution thinks
that he knows how this man Of the future viii
| differ from the man of to-day and he viii ex-
plot his theory in the January Harper
Miss Henriette Corkran gives the world in
her "reminiscences I queer glimpse OF Robert
his London house one afternoon, she happened
to look out of the back window. And there"
she says. Il Mr. Robert Browning nursing
4 goose. absolutely carrying II IN MS arms me
poet came into the hall with the goose
laughed. remarking that it was queer kind Of
pet 1t is so clever and affectIonate, answered
/ Mr. Browning ii not We'll. l am looking
after it, 1t follows me ABOUT just like dog
The rove of nature literature in England has
carried many books to a modest success. but I
has served to support Mr. Dents beautlIu
| monthly. The Country" No more numbers
| viii appear-whch is i pity, for the thing haQ
many charms.
Mt Howard Pyle who has ever taste for
| the quaint and archaic. has written a story
about King Arthur and has. moreover, Illus
! trated il himself. Happy man VINO heed hot
t4. exasperated by seeing q strange Illustrator
managing in his drawings both the incidents ana
the character of his work The story IS TO be
published SeriaIiy in THE St Nicholas OF LIS.
Under the title Of The Land of Little Rain
a dWeller in the Western desert. Mary Austin,
has written a series OF sketches Of unConven-
tionaI characters-squaw. Greaser. miner and
the like. These are be published soon in Thu
/ Atlantic"