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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVI, 24 December 1898, Page 825

1 here yvill be found, among much othei interesting- literary and pictorial matter in the November number of the -Pall Mall Magazine.' a short study of Alphonse Daudet in private life, and <iii account of ‘Luna b’ishiiiin 1 lit* Pacific.' which yvill be sure to be read with pleasure by all lovers of the pis catorial art. ‘ The Renegade - ami 'The Skirts of ( hanee are ,wo short stories, boll- very good in their very different ways. 'The Silver Skull' Mr S. lb ( loekett’s serial story of an Italian Fiee Company'—deepens in interest as it proceeds. Compton Wynvate's is the great English house described in this issue, and most charmingly illustrated from special photos. There is also an illustrated article on the little visited-by-tourists Italian city of Leg horn. The frontispiece is a really admirable etching by B. Schumacher after .1. Van Eyck entitled *A Man's Portrait. Mr Qttiller Couch discourses wittily and sensibly upon, among other things, the apotheosis of M. Henri Rochefort by the French printters in eonimeinoration of the cominggreat Exhibition of 1900. Chollie: ‘I must vveally pwotest! Your daughter my wife is er the most difficult woman to get on with. She- er er—' Father-in-law: ‘Say no more, my son; I tun in a position to give you my truest and deepest sympathy I married her mother!