Beggar's Manor. By R. Murray Gilchrist. (w. Heinemann....
has chosen a disagreeable subject, and treated it with adequate taste and skill. An untaught, ill-brought-up lad is taken by the coarse beauty of a girl older than himself, and......
Current Literature.
THE ENGLISH SAINTS. The English Saints. By W. H. Hutton. (Wells Gardner, Dalton, and Co. 12s. 6d.)—" It should be possible through the lives of the Saints most revered in any......
A Girl Of Ideas. By Annie Flint. (ward, Lock, And
Co. 6s.)—This is an amusing, if rather impossible, little book. The heroine, the girl with ideas, failing to get her first novel pub- lished, opens a bureau for the sale of......
Isolates A Child From Human Speech, And Draws The Somewhat
large inference that its first attempt at language would show which was the primitive tongue of mankind. Benedetto, son of a deaf-and-dumb mother, is brought up by her tili lie......
But The Disagreeable People Are Painted In An Unrelieved...
of black, which makes them rather difficult to believe in. The heroine is nicer as a child than as a woman, but far be it from the present writer to say that this is not......
Dacobra. By Harris Burland. (everett And Co. 35. 6d.)— Mr.
Burland's story, to which he gives the encouraging second title, " The White Priests of Ahriman," is a great contrast to the last-mentioned novel. A dark mystery surrounds the......
The Congo Free State.
We have received a Bulletin Officiel issued by the Congo Free State defending the Administration from the charges brought against it, and a rejoinder from the pen of Mr. Fox......
In South-eastern Europe, And The Kidnapping Of A...
Prince, or rather his restoration to his country, is the motive of the story. The wicked Count who gives his name to the book is quickly discovered by the reader to be the......
Novels.
A TALE OF THE HEBRIDES.* IT sometimes happens that a master of style seems to be mastered by style. Mr. Neil Munro is not quite exempt from the danger. We observe traces of a......
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