* * * * * Miss Louie Freear writes: ‘I do not know where I should have been without your Titan crane. Before you could say knife it had picked up three volumes and hurled them through the drawing-room ceiling. As they seem to be irretrievably stuck in the plaster, will you please send three more. As far as we can tell by a process of simple subtraction they are vols. xiv., xxiii., and lxiv.’ Madame Clara Butt writes: ‘I find it matchless for lifting Mother’s Joy.’ Sir Thomas Lipton, Bart., writes: ‘It is splendid. I really believe it would lift the Cup!’ EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS ARTICLES in the New Volumes of the Insidecompletuar Britanniaware N.B.--_These are only portions of the Articles. The Articles are heaps longer._ ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS. _From the Article (80 pages) specially contributed by LADY WARWICK._ =Africa.=--... This dark yet fascinating continent, which extends from the Cape to Cairo and from the Bight of Benin to the Beit of Park Lane, Africa, the home of the gorilla, the ju-ju, the kopje, and the blockhouse, has recently loomed large in the public eye.... To discuss the recent military operations in view of their masterly treatment by Lady Jeune in another place [see _The Boer War, its History and Lessons_], would savour of supererogation. It is enough to state here that the women were splendid, especially at the Mount Nelson Hotel. The principal exports of Africa at the present moment are Boer Generals, Reservists, and books on the war. The principal import is Joe.... [_The New Volume also contains Articles on COLD STORAGE, ORIEL SCHOLARS, CORDITE, &c._] THE WILD WEST. _From the Special Article (68 pages) by LORD KELVIN, Mr. CHARLES HAWTREY, and Mrs. CARRIE NATION_: =America.=--... The Fauna of America is extensive and peculiar. Unlike other civilised countries, dangerous wild beasts and birds of prey are commonly encountered in the most populous districts. Nothing can exceed the ferocity of the Trust Fowl, while whole regions of New York are rendered unsafe by the ravages of the Tammany Bos and the Tammany Tiger. Yet alongside these examples of barbarous atavism, one encounters evidences of singular refinement and humanity. Mr. Roosevelt, though originally a cowboy, has set his face like a flint against the tyranny of the Beef Trust, and only a superficial observer would count Mr. Hay as a man of straw. Furthermore, the humanising influence of American culture is signally displayed by its principal exports, which include, amongst other products, J. Pierpont Morgan, canned peaches, Mr. Duke, duchesses, R. G. Knowles, coon songs, Quaker oats, Tabs, Christian Science, Virginia hams, cocktails, Major Pond, Honeysuckles, Bees, and Edna May....