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QUAINT SUBJECTS OF THE KING.

Quaint Subjects of the King. By John Foster Fraser. (Cassell and Co. Gs.)—This volume is, in its way, full of Imperial interest. Mr. Fraser takes us to many places in the " wide, wide world," and shows us our brothers and sisters. Ho writes from considerable experience of his own, and he has gone to other sources of knowledge. Indeed, his acknowledgments, as they are gives in the preface, where they occupy about two pages, are a bit of curious reading. Africa, with as usual aliquid novi, Australia, the Pacific Archipelagoes, North America, India, are among the countries which contribute quotas of the strange and

the picturesque. A book this full of strange things, and amply

illustrated