[_The New Volumes also contain Articles on LIGHT LITERATURE and THE ASSOUAN DAM._] THE TRIBUTE OF A GRAND DUKE. _From the Special Article by Professor HORACE HUTCHINSON._ =Haskell Ball.=--... This extraordinary projectile, the fruit of Transatlantic ingenuity, has been likened by the Grand Duke Michael to an infuriated pat of butter.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on JUMPING BEANS, GUTTA SERENA, and MR. BALFOUR._] AN IMPERIOUS NEPHEW. _From the Special Article (43 pages) by * * * *_ =Hohenzollern, William.=--Now that his moustache has ceased to point to China, he can be contemplated with more serenity.... It is breaking no confidence to state that the expedition to the hop district of Kent, which King Edward VII. contemplated, was abandoned principally on account of the receipt of a somewhat testy missive from Posen requesting as a personal favour that no countenance be given to gardens which, the writer understood, were full of Poles.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on LORD LONSDALE and THE EXTERMINATION OF RABBITS._] Superb Plate from the Article on =Holland= in the New Volumes of the INSIDECOMPLETUAR BRITANNIAWARE. [Illustration: VIEW NEAR VOLENDAM. THE HOTEL AT AMSTERDAM WHERE THE BOER GENERAL STAYED.] THE GREATEST SINCE LEANDER. _From the Special Article (2000 superlatives) by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE._ =Holbein, Montagu.=--In 1902 Montagu Holbein inaugurated the Twentieth Century with a feat of such sublime and unsubmergible endurance as won for him an aureole of imperishable lustre. Battling the billows with an indomitable dexterity more like that of an inspired cachalot than a finless mortal, this intrepid and miraculous hero only consented to be withdrawn from the waves when reduced to the verge of irremediable collapse. Greater than Leander by virtue of the incomparably more arduous nature of his exploit, greater than Matthew Webb by reason of his ineffably nobler and more euphonious name, Montagu Holbein has established a title to undying remembrance that exalts him to the level of transcendental achievement hitherto attained by Shakespeare, Hugo, and Dickens alone.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on WATTS-DUNTON, BECKWITH, and HOW TO FLOAT A COMPANY._] =Humbert, Madame.= _See_ EXTRADITION. SHAKESPEAREAN LITERATURE. _From the Special Article (14 pages) by Mrs. WELLS GALLUP_: =Lee, Sidney.=--... Mr. Lee is a cipher.... [_The New Volumes also contain an Article on BACON, by Father Ignatius._] POPES ON THE STAGE. _From the Special Article by Mr. BEERBOHM TREE._