In Pepysiana (g. Bell And Sons, 103.), Mr. Wheatley Deserts
the part of patient editor, which he plays best, and collects together a mass of irrelevant facts and indiscreet opinions. He has pierced the mystery of Pepys's banking account......
Sarah Bernhardt. By Jules Huret. With A Preface By Edmond
Rostand. Translated from the French by G. A. Raper. With 55 Illustrations. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—The beat things in this book are the illustrations and two pages and a half of......
The Memoirs Of Sergeant Bourgogne (william Heinemann,...
of the few living books published in recent years. We have already applauded the French original, and since so fine a masterpiece cannot find too many readers, we are glad to......
Mr. William Andrews In His Curious Epitaphs (andrews,7s....
collected a goodly number of lapidary inscriptions. But the book is of no great value, since its compiler has been led away by an irrelevant jocosity. Now, many an excellent man......
Thousandth Anniversary Of Alfred The Great. It Is Edited By
the Mayor of Winchester, whose Christian name we observe is "Alfred " ; it has a charming introduction by Sir Walter Besant, a frontispiece poem by the Poet-Laureate, and a......
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