Recent Rambles In Touch With Nature. By Charles C. Abbott,
M.D. (J. B. Lippincott.)—Dr. Abbott has some interesting things to tell us about avoods and streams, trees and flowers, birds and beasts. They are, indeed, less interesting to......
Hugh Deyne Of Plas - Ldrys. By Yore Clavering. (hurst And...
whose literary palates are not very sensitive, and who can endure much for the sake of a brisk story with a fine manly hero, a winning heroine, a feminine schemer who may be......
London In The Time Of The Great Rebellion. By Charles
M. Clode. (Harrison and Sons.)—Mr. Clode, who is a Past-Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company, has put together in this volume some interesting facts about a distinguished......
Browning's "prose St Rafford."*
SURELY, among the most curious of the curiosities of litera- ture, is the fact—for fact it seems to be — that Robert Browning wrote "The Life of Strafford" which appeared in......
Once Upon A Time. Translated From The Italian Of Luigi
Capuana. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is another pleasant volume of a pleasant series," The Children's Library." Fairy-tales are not easily criticised or even described. The charm,......
Current Literature.
A Mixed Marriage. By the Lady Amabel Kerr. (Art and Book Company.)—A very sweet and natural character is portrayed in the heroine of this little tale. Several of the other......
Foiled. By The Hon. Mrs. Henniker. A Vols. (hurst And
Blackett.)—The opening chapters of this novel show much pro- mise. The description of Frank Heseltine and his surroundings is touched with much skill. We recognise the......
Ilyamesan : A Japanese Romance. By " A. M." (walter Scott.)
—.Japanese romance goes hack to very early times indeed, This, however, is a story of the present day, with an Anglo-American artist for hero, a half-bread of mixed Irish and......
Afloat And Ashore On The Mediterranean. By Lee...
Low, Marston, and Co.)—This book is a very curious medley of jest and earnest. Mr. Meriwether has studied the sub- ject of convict labour in his own country, where he held......
Selected Fragments Of Roman Poetry From The Earliest...
W. W. Merry, D.D. (Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Merry begins with the "Carmen Sahara" and the "Carmen Fratrum Arvaliura ;" between these, which date back, it is probable, to a very......
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