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St. Patrick's Day In The Morning.

A Patrick's Day Hunt. By Martin Ross and E.

Lorraine : A Romance. By R. W. Chambers. (g. P.

Putnam's Sons. 6a.)—This is a very spirited story of the fall of the Second Empire. The heroine is finely imagined; there is a touch of real genius in the way in which she is......

Leslie Farquhar. By Rosaline Masson. (john Murray. 6s.)—...

plenty of good work in this book. Both Leslie and her father are finely drawn figures, and so are the two curiously different women,—Mrs. Ogilvy, who may stand for tragedy, and......

C Eirrent Literature.

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. XXXI. (VII. of the Supple- ment.) (A. and C. Black.)—The longest and most important article in Vol. XXXI. is that on......

Tales Of A Far Biding. By Oliver Onions. (john Murray.

68.) —We wonder where this "Far Riding" is supposed to be. Some- where in the mountain region of Northern England., we gather from the description of the country. But then the......

Kotto. By Lafcadlo Hearn. (macmillan And Co. 6s.)—the...

this volume are various. In it we find nine translations of Japanese tales, some fragments from the diary of a Japanese working woman, and several essays more or less connected......