BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XX, 14 May 1898, Page 610

BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.

The ‘Pall Mall Magazine’ for April contains much excellent and variedreading matter and illustration. Among the articles the late Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope’s ‘Five Weeks in Jerusalem,’ attractively illustrated, will prove very interesting to many readers. Other interesting articles are ‘The Evolution of Comfort in Kailway Travelling,’ ‘The Record of the Gurkhas,’ ‘An Artist in Antwerp.’ There is the first part of a story by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne, dealing with adventurous episodes in the later life of that Prince Rupert who, according to the declaration of Cromwell’s Ironsides, only came to conquer or to die. Another instalment of ‘Rupert of Hentzau’ enlists our interest still further in this tale of romantic risk and adventure. Mr Quiller-Couch from his Cornish Window talks to us this month in his very best vein. Lord Saville describes, with the aid of special photogravures in a short graphically written article, the glories of that interesting old pile, ‘Rufford Abbey.’ The admirable photogravure, ‘Gossip,’ whicli serves as frontispiece, is from a picture by Edmund Picard, and nothing could be better done than his delineation of the expressions on the faces of the three old dames.

In the April number of the ‘Review of Reviews’ for Australasia, Prince Ranjitsinhji discourses on whoy the English Cricket Team failed to conquer the Australians. Mr Stead treats in the Book of the Month, of Zola’s ‘Paris,’ gives an excellent character sketch of Lord Salisbury, and writes interestingly on ‘The Threatened War,’ in the Topic of the Month. A lengthy article is devoted to the Mining Troubles in Western Australia. The number contains as usual the cream of the magazines.

The March number of ‘The West End Review' is to hand and an excellent number it is of its kind. ‘The West End Review’ should, indeed, prove itself a most acceptable journal to many varied classes of readers, for it offers wholesome, if somewhat light and airy, food, agreeable to a wide variety of mental palates. ‘The Review’ is profusely illustrated throughout, and Stage and Studio come in for the lion’s share of artistic illustration. The tastes of the feminine readers of ‘The West End Review’ are indefatigably catered for, and in •Woman’s Realm,’ ladies are thoroughly instructed as to the latest vagaries of fashion, and receive the latest information with regard to the most effective and correct ways of decorating their persons and their homes.