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The Little Red Schoolhouse. By Evelyn Raymond. (roberts...

17.S.)—The author dedicates this story to the pupils and teachers of "our blessed country schools." We do not criticise the epithet, though it is not wholly applicable to the......

When A Maiden Marries. By Andrew Deir. (digby, Long, And

Co.)—Though Andrew Deir describes scenes well, and has some good characters who talk well, the complete absence of any plot or central motive running through this story prevents......

Index To Collinson's History Of Somerset. (barnicott And...

20s.)—A county history without a reasonable index— such was the original edition of Collinson —is a most tiresome work of reference. Happily the deficiency has now been made......

The Fall Of The Nibelungs. Translated By Margaret Armour....

and Co.)—This is a rendering of the great epic of the North in its mediteval German dress. Though much more elaborate, it cannot be said to be as poetical as earlier Volsung......

Sporting Rhymes And Pictures. By J. L. C. Booth. (kegan

Paul and Co.)—If the author of these drawings had a sense of tone equal to his sense of line they would be excellent. Taken as they are, they are best when simplest and little......

The Danes Of Death. (bell And Sons.) — This Is

a little book reproducing Holbein's famous designs. In an intro- ductory note Mr. Austin Dobson tells us that the earliest known edition was printed at Lyons in 1538 by the......

The Forge In The Forest. By Charles G. D. Roberts.

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a second edition of a very picturesque story, a romance of Acadia in the days when England and France were still contending for the mastery......

Imaginations In Verse. By G. J. Bridges. (commercial Ex-...

unpretending little volume should not be over- looked by lovers of poetry. Along with a certain awkward- ness that marks the beginner, it exhibits a sense of style and a note of......

Maori Art. By A. Hamilton. (published By The New Zealand

Institute, Wellington, N.Z. 7s. 6d.)—This first instalment deals with canoes ; their mythology, design, and decoration. The work is one of great detail and the plates numerous.......

Royal Academy Pictures, 1898. (cassell And Co.)—this...

got up and gives reproductions of a number of the more obvious of the Academy pictures.......

Art-books.

British Miniature Painters awl their Works. By J. J. Foster. (Samp- son Low and Co.)—To deal with this delicate art in a ponderous tome seems anomalous, but we must forgive the......

William Hogarth. By Austin Dobson. (kegan Paul. 12s.)—...

and enlarged edition gives a very full picture of the subject of the biography. The author describes Hogarth as an honest Englishman of the bull-dog type ; misunderstood and......