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The Master Of Redleaf : A Tale. By Elizabeth Avery

Meriwether. (S. Tinsley and Co.)—If the author of this story had told it in a different manner, she might have produced a striking work ; as it is, she misses the sublime, and......

Sketches Beyond The Sea. By Franc B. Wilkie,...

a volume of reprinted articles from the Chicago Times. The author seems to have taken things a good deal too much for granted during his stay in England, and to have been of a......

And Which Will Have A Special Interest For Travellers,...

they wish to study the botany or geology of the district described, are lovers of sport, or are intent on the more practical object of money- making. The account of the......

Wolfern Chace : A Chronicle Of "days That Are No

More." (Remington and Co.)—It is easy to guess at the line of a story which opens thus : Malediction on all chimney-clocks and their inventor," said Sir Geoffrey Langdale to his......

Her World Against A Lie. By Florence Llarryat. (samuel...

and Co.)—The denial of her marriage that constitutes the "ho " by which Delia Moray saves herself from being deprived of her child by the cruel brother-in-law, to whofo a most......

Waltoniana. By Richard Herne Shepherd. (pickering.)—the...

is that it contains " inedited remains, in verse and prose, of Isaak Walton," the poems beginning with the "Elegy upon Dr. Donne." Walton'e final cast of this is to be found in......

The Merton Prize Essay, 1879 : The Authenticity,...

of very great ability, learning, and candour ; which appreciates at their full value all the difficulties affecting the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, and yet judges the......

Whitecross And The Bench : A Reminiscence Of The Past.

By the Author of "Five Years' Penal Servitude." (Bentley and Son.) —This book is one among the many instances which come under our notice of the insecurity of taking it for......