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The Land Leaguers. By Anthony Trollope. 3 Vols. (chatto And

Windns.)—It was natural and, perhaps, desirable that the MS. which Mr. Trollope left behind him should be published after his death. He was certainly eminent enough to make the......

A Great Treason. By Mary A. M. Hoppus. 2 Vole.

(Macmillan and Co.)—We cannot answer for other English folk, but we can un- hesitatingly say for ourselves that we have no kind of pleasure in reading about the American War of......

In The English Illustrated Magazine This Month, Art Is Well

repre- sented by a vigorous reproduction of Cranach's portrait of Luther ; and by an interesting account, from the pen of Mr. Walter Arm- strong, of "Some Forgotten Etchers."......

In The Hebrides. By C. F. Gordon Cumming. (chatto And

Windus.)—This is almost wholly a reprint of a work published some eight years ago. The book consists principally of a string of legendary tales and traditions of the West......

We Have Received A Second Edition Of The Contract Of

Pawn, by Francis Turner (Stevens and Sons), brought up to date by the incorporation of such statutes as have borne upon the subject since the publication of the first edition in......

Through The Stage Door: A Novel. By Harriett Jay. (f.

V. White.) —This is a regrettable book. The coarse vices of bad men are not material whereof women should weave their fictions. If they know anything about the matter by......

Quatrefoil. By Mary Deane. (chapman And Hall.)—this Is A...

partly ponderous, partly [esthetic, and wholly pretentious. The heroine is " rather nice," and we wish she had not fallen to the much-too-good-for-him lot of a gentleman of the......