=Remounts.=--... The officers of the Remount Department seem to have overlooked the circumstance, not so much that the horse is an animal with a leg at each corner, but that these legs should be at least as strong as those fitted to a Tottenham Court Road table. Just as there is a use for everything, even Shoolbred’s, so there is a use for a horse with three legs. I do not say the army can do without such an animal. But he has no proper place in a cavalry regiment; his place is among the beef stores. This confusion of duties, this exchange of interests between the Remount and the Commissariat Department, was one of the blots on the recent South African war. Shipload after shipload of horses arrived in Table Bay (I take pleasure in writing the name of a geographical feature so admirably chosen) all excellently adapted for the purpose of the cuisine, but all destined by official perversity for the capture of De Wet. It is such methods that we must avoid in the future, and it is for this purpose that I have imported a sterling line of cane-bottomed mustangs from the Austrian Bent Woods, which I am prepared to offer to the War Office at a low rate, subject to discount for cash, if Mr. Brodrick has any.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on BEEF EXTRACTS, CHEVRIL, and CROCKERY (by Lord Lonsdale), CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, and HUNGARY._] Superb Plate from the Article =The Earl of Rosebery= in the New Volumes of the INSIDECOMPLETUAR BRITANNIAWARE. [Illustration: THE HOME FARM, MENTMORE.] THE HIGHER LIFE. _From the Article (12 pages) by LIEUT.-COL. NEWNHAM-DAVIS._ =Restaurants=--... Advancing civilisation having shown that efficiency is based on fine feeding, it is the paramount duty of every patriotic Briton to dine not wisely but too well. As a great gourmet has remarked, a rich _menu_ spells a happy _ménage_. At the same time it is advisable to dine at home as seldom as possible: it is cheap but monotonous, and often nasty, and there are 150 restaurants in London where a succulent dinner can be had for anything from 15_s._ to 30_s._ a head, a fact of which the British workman seems to be painfully unaware. The conversation of a _chef_, or even an intelligent waiter, is, it should be borne in mind, almost invariably stimulating and refined. By thus conscientiously evading the dreariness of domesticity, a self-respecting and well-nourished citizen, reinvigorated by repeated visits to Monte Carlo, Cannes, Homburg, and occasional week-ends at the most luxurious hotels on the south coast, may be able to support the burden of existence with equanimity, and be ready for his country’s call. Every house should be connected to a good restaurant by a souptureenean passage.... [_The New Volumes also contain Articles on WEEK-ENDS, PEARCE AND PLENTY, and DWARFS._] A GREAT WRITER. _From the Special Article (111 pages) by HALL CAINE, M.H.K._: