12 MARCH 1892, Page 24

There are some really excellent papers in the March number

of the Gentleman's Magazine. Perhaps the first place among these should be given to Mr. Foster Watson's "Sir Henry Wotton, Gentleman and Schoolmaster." It is one of the best studies that have ever appeared of that greatest of child-psychologists. The next place to this paper we are inclined to give to " Marquesan (otherwise Herman) Melville," giving a study of one who was be- yond all doubt the greatest of the prose-poets of the Pacific. The hand-to-mouth public writer might do worse than read a curious paper of odds-and-ends, " Baboos, Bulls, Blunders, &c." He will learn, among other things, that he ought to write, not " Russo- Phile," but " Philo-Russ."