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Violet Fanshawe. By Mabel Collins. 2 Vols. (f. V. White

and Co.)—This is a repulsive book. The heroine is a silly, sensual woman (one of her minor vices is an addiction to sweetmeats and liqueurs), an adulteress in will, who would......

Flowers And Flower-lore.* This Recent Addition To Our...

will be especially acceptable to those who do not merely admire flowers, whether wild or cultivated, but like to study them in their poetical and legendary aspects ; but it may......

Our Golden Key. By Lady Hope. (seeley And Co.)—when We

have added the second title of this book, "A Narrative of Facts from 'Outcast London,'" we have shown good reason why we should not attempt to criticise it. The state of things......

Scotland, Died Near:y Fifty Years Ago, At The Age Of

twenty-three. Mr. Drummond, who was his friend, wrote this biography, and left it at his death unfinished. It now comes out under the editorship of his son. It is enough to say......

Current Literature.

The Land and the Labourer. By C. W. Stubbs, M.A. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Stubbs has something to tell us about small culture and about co-operative agriculture. It is......