Euripides. Translated Into English Prose By Edward P....
B.A. Vol. I. (Bell and Sons.)—It must be confessed that a translation of Euripides into prose is not very interesting. But, such as it is, the work has been well done by Mr. E.......
Balaam And His Master. By Joel Chandler Harris. (osgood And
Co.)—This is a volume of exceptionally good—yet not painfully smart "—American stories by the popular author of " Uncle Remus," although the reader need not look for the special......
My Official Wife. By Colonel Richard Henry Savage....
plot of this story—and the plot is everything—is daringly American, exciting, and in parts highly entertaining. A young Nihilist Jewess, whose capacity for hatred and intrigue......
Teufel's History Of Roman Literature. Revised And...
Schwabe. Translated by George C. W. Warr, M.A. (Bell and Sons ; Deighton, Bell, and Co.)—Dr. Teuffel's History of Roman Literature was published in 1870. After his death in......
Oysters, And All About Them. By John R. Philpots. 2
vols. (Richardson and Co.)—These two volumes, containing together between thirteen and fourteen hundred pages, should indeed con- tain "all about oysters." Nothing could be more......
Her Love And His Life. By F. W. Robinson. 3
vols. (H urst and Blackett.)—In the second rank of living novelists we have no more conscientious and careful workman than Mr. F. W. Robinson, and he never gives us a book that......
Colonel Carter Of Cartersville. By F. Hopkinson Smith....
Co.)—This is not so much a story as a delightful—and delightfully American—character-sketch, executed in a style which here and there recalls Thackeray. Colonel Carter, indeed,......
The Peak Of Derbyshire. By John Leyland. (seeley And Co.)—
This is one of those admirable tourists' companions—something more and better than ordinary guide-books—of which Messrs. Seeley and Co. have published a good number during the......
Travels In Various Parts Of Europe. By Gilbert A. W.
Harrison. (Bemrose and Sons.)—It is rather unfortunate, to say the least of it, that the type of this book is so small, and exhibits therefore so great a contrast to the......
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