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Margaret Winthrop. By Alice Morse Earle. (john Murray.)—...

is the first of a projected series, entitled " Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times in America." It is, in its way, an excellent beginning. If all the writers of the series......

Odes, And Other Poems. By John Cowper Powys. (rider And

Son.)—Poems on Love and Nature. By Charles W. Cayzer, B.A. (Elliot Stock.)—These two small volumes may be classed to- gether, for it is, we think, evident that both are written......

Ldo - Tsze, The Great Thinker. By Major-general G. G....

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—General Alexander has followed up his excellent book on " Confucius, the Great Teacher " with a, companion volume. It has been a very different task, for......

Marsh. Leaves. By P. H. Emerson. (d. Nutt.)—these...

life, human and other, in the marshes are evidently the work of a man who has closely observed the creatures about which he writes. His style is, in our judgment, ambitious and......

The Sister Dominions. By James Francis Hogan, M.p. (ward And

Downey.)—The " Sister Dominions" are Canada and Australia, and Mr. Hogan, after traversing Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway, took his passage to Australia by the......

Browning And The Christian Faith. By Edward Berdoe, M.d....

Allen.)—Dr. Berdoe tells us in his preface that he was driven reluctantly, by doubts and difficulties from which he could find no escape, to abandon his belief in Christianity,......

Disturbing Elements. By Mabel C. Birchenongh. (smith,...

is a sufficiently lively story. It tells the fortunes of three women, to whom we are introduced, as in- mates of Bronte Hall, in the first chapter. All are good studies of......