26 MARCH 1904, page 10

T He Present Writer Has Lately Been Reading A Book By

a Roman Catholic writer—the author of " The Catholic Church from Within "—entitled "A Short Cut to Happiness" (London : Sands and Co., 2s. 6d. net). "Happiness is," accord- ing......

An Imperial Portrait Gallery.

F OR a private Englishman to acquire a famous painting with a view to exhibiting it in the Colonies, purely from philanthropic motives, is, we believe, an entirely new departure......