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Club Life In England.*

OUR modern London Club life is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable, and one of the most distinctively English, character- istics of modern English social life. The Club, as......

Matrimonial Bonds. By "florian." 3 Vols. (j. And R....

—We read in " Florian's " preface,—" To those whose ideas of morality run in the groove adopted by the fortunate ones of the earth, I say,—Do not read it. But to the many who......

Joan Carisbroke. By Emma Jane Worboise. (james Clarke And...

is a pleasant story of the domestic kind. The character of the heroine is nicely drawn, and the incident is sufficiently interesting to make it very readable.......

The Divine Legation Of Christ. By The Rev. If. Fowle.

(C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—Bishop Warburton's "Divine Legation of Moses" has suggested both the title and argument of this book. The Bishop argued that Moses must have had a divine......

Kings In Exile. By Alphonse Daudet. Translated By E,...

3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—M. Alphonse Daudet is unquestionably one of the satirists who hold up a too faithful mirror to vice. Doubtless it is well that good republicans should......

Current Literature.

The Story of a Demoiselle. By the Author of "A French Heiress." Illustrated by W. J. Hennessy. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—This, like most of the "Blue Bell Series," is a story of......

Poetby. — Songs And Verses On Sporting Subjects. By R. E....

Warburton. (Pickering.)—These songs are often spirited and clever. " Hush ! Hush ! Hush !" a ballad in which love and sport are cleverly combined, is particularly good. We may......