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EXTRACTS AND REVIEWS. No. 8 of Cope's Smoke-room Booklets contains a selection from the good things which appeared in Cope's Tobacco Plant." Smokers who delight in chats about the weed will find here a stock of anecdotes calculated to amuse them for many dark November days. The series is nicely printed, and may be obtained for one shilling a number from Cope of Liverpool. Holly Leaves, the Christmas number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, is accom. panied by two coloured supplements—one of which, Memories," from the painting by J. W. Godward, is the most art'stic of any which we have yet seen presented with the Christmas papers, and is itself more than worth the money charged for the whole number. The literary con- tents are up to the usual high standard of Holly Leaves. To-day has arrived, and the high expectations formed of Mr Jerome's new twopenny weekly are more than realised. Fiction occupies a front seat, of course, and the contributions of Mr R. L. Stephenson, the editor, and Bret Harte should be 'sufficient to please the most omniverous novel- reader. Then we have interviews, sketches, gossip, talk on current topics in the political, social, musical, literary, fashionable, and theatri- cal worlds; and the children are not forgotten! A decided and welcome advance on the weekly serial. We have received an early copy of No. 3 of The Breezy Library Series, published by Messrs Raphael Tuck and Sons, entitled An Arnty Doctor's Romance, a story of the Matabele War, by Grant Allen; price, Is.—The name of the publishers has always been associated with beautiful specie mens of the printing art, and this, one of their latest ventures, deserves special notice. The cover is one of the most attractive ever yet pro- duced at the price, and the sketches, coming as an additional recommendation from the able pencil of Harry Payne, are in keeping. The name of Grant Allen is in itself an adequate indication of the kind of matter set forth. The reading is light and pleasan, and the characters well chosen with the exception of that of Lobengula, whom the author pictures as a fearfully corpulent old drunkard, and had to be lifted on his feet by his men. Recent events in South Africa seem to point to the fact that this chieftain is possessed of considerable activity.

EXTRACTS AND REVIEWS.

THE POLITICAL WORLD.

D JK E AMI/AND.

DESPERATE STEUGGLK WITH THIEVES…

IN PARLIAMENT.