A Will Made In Haste, By Grace Stebbing (jarrold And
Sons), is a very artistic combination of a story with a purpose and a sensational novel. One is reminded just a little of the younger Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley by the......
In Handsome Jack, And Other Stories — Of Prison Life And...
misery, alcoholism, and camaraderie--(Ward and Downey), Mr. James Greenwood shows,—and to greater advantage than in any- thing he has published since "The Amateur Casual,"—his......
A Society Clown, By George Grossmith (arrowsmith,...
the reductio ad absurdum of literature of the "Reminis- cences " type. Mr. Grossmith was born in 1847, and yet here he is in effect publishing his autobiography ! There is......
Totemism. By J. G. Frazer, M.a., Barrister. (black, Edin-...
origin of totemism is still obscure, so much we gather from what Mr. Frazer says. Indeed, he leaves the question where he finds it, having done little besides collect a quantity......
Ireland's Dream. By Captain E. D. Lyon. 2 Vols. (sonnen-
schein and Co.)—This book is described on the title-page as "a romance of the future." Mr. Gladstone is supposed to have passed a Home-rule measure for Ireland, and the story......
A Lombard Street Mystery. By Muirhead Robinson. (w....
not every would-be swindler that has a twin- brother exactly like himself, whose corpse he can introduce into his office, and so cheat the world into the belief that he has......
Current Literature.
The Gallery of a Random Collector, by Clinton Ross (Panama, New York), is a collection of sketches and stories by an American writer, deserving a word of special notice on......
Vaia's Lord. By Jean Middlemass. 3 Vols. (swan...
Co.)—This is a very unedifying, and, to us, an exceedingly dull book ; in fact, it is one of those novels which are so utterly devoid of anything calculated to attract a reader......
The "third Series " Of The Expositor, Edited By The
Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton), opens with a paper by Archdeacon Farrar on " Modern English Exegesis," which makes a very appropriate preface to the work......
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