they possessed? But we do not write by machinery, we only reproduce myriadfold what is written, and make it common property; the writing is still done essentially as in Homer's time, and Horace's, and Chaucer's. Is it? Do you suppose that the machinery, visible and occult, whirling at one end of the cord has no effect upon the brain and nerves which are working at the other? Are you ignorant of the history of modern literature and literary men? But the results of Literature by Machinery are perhaps only beginning to manifest themselves, and will take another generation or two to come into full flower, and our children and grandchildren have a fine time before them in the matter of Current Literature, as in several other

matters.

Howsoever this may be, friend Yorke, I find it highly incon

venient, as well as unbecoming, for a Hermit to attempt the feat of keeping one eye on nature and human life and another on the indefinite crowd of readers, or skimmers and skippers, of periodical literature. Desultory reading, desultory writing, desultory thinking,

pernicious habits these, from which the Lord deliver us both!

Ever yours, from whatever point of the compass, but, after to-day,

no more

AN EASTERN HERMIT.

My last word on politics: When the present Ministry has been swept into the dust-hole, garters and all, may one of the chief aims of their successors-Liberal, Conservative, or Coalition, I care not-be a frank and firm friendship between England and Russia, two nations which have no sound reason for quarrel and many for mutual goodwill.

ΤΟ

Africa and the Africans, by a Negro
(Edward W. Blyden), 178
Arcadi, The Academy of the (Part II.),
by Vernon Lee, 33

Athens, 'L'Ecole Française' at, by the Rev.
W. Wolfe Capes, 103

Bacon (Francis), Public Career and Per-
sonal Character of, by James Rowley,
308

Betham (Matilda), Coleridge's, Southey's,
and Lamb's Letters to, 73

British Empire (The), Defence of, by
George Baden-Powell, I

Burmese (The), Sketches of Life among, by
P. Hordern, 85, 245, 296, 471, 599, 758

Capital (English), Employment of, by
Francis R. Conder, C.E. 326
Chinaman (John) Abroad, by G. R. Fitz-
Roy Cole, C.E. 447

Coleridge's Letters to Matilda Betham, 73
Colonial Custom-Houses, a Reply from
Victoria, by Edward Langton, Member
of the Executive Council of Victoria,
482
Colorado, by an English Farmer settled
there, 622

Cromwell (Oliver), Trial of Two Quakers in
the Time of, by A. H. A. Hamilton, 226
Dorset Idyll (A), by F. T. Palgrave, 595

Economy of Speed in Transport, by F. R.
Conder, C.E. 647
Education (Pauper), Facts and Fallacies
of, by Walter R. Browne, M.A. 197
Engineers in India, 559

England, Hydrological Survey of, by F. R.
Conder, C.E. 20

England in the Nineteenth Century (Mr.
Walpole's), by G. Barnett Smith, 713
English Capital, Employment of, by Francis
R. Conder, C.E. 326

France (Eastern), Holidays in :

I, Seine et Marne, 362
II. Le Doubs, 516

III. Still in Le Doubs, 631

IV. The Jura, 737

• Frisco,' 679

Hoffmann's Kreisler, by Vernon Lee, 767
Hydrological Survey of England, by F. R.
Conder, C.E. 20

India, Engineers in, 559

India, Solvency and Resources of, a Reply
to an Article in the Nineteenth Century,
778
Industry, Unremunerative (Organisation
of), by Edith Simcox, 609
Italian Musical Life in the Eighteenth

Century, by Vernon Lee, 339, 423, 566
Ivy Leaves, from the Hermitage, Epping
Forest, by an Eastern Hermit, 130, 262,
396, 530, 662, 796

John Chinaman Abroad, by G. R. Fitz-Roy
Cole, C.E. 447

June Day's Fancies (A), by A. K. H. B.
167

Kreisler, Hoffmann's, by Vernon Lee, 767

713

C.E. 726

Tory Finance, 667

dern), by Captain Cyprian Bridge, R.N.

458