Sir James Yoxall Tells Us That The Agreeable Volume Which
he calls .4 Villa for Conch, (Smith, Elder, and Co., Os. net) was intended " to bind up and transmit to the indifference of posterity" papers which he bad contributed to various......
Cato Learned Greek When He Was Past Eighty, And His
example has been an encouragement to the aged ever since. Even more greatly daring is the Rev. W. Spooner Smith, who had never set foot outside the United States until he......
An Interesting Specimen Of What May Be Done By Co-opera.
tion in the compilation of local history is to be found in Bygone Haslemere (West, Newman, and Co., 54 Hatton Garden, 21a.). This book originated in the work of the late J. W.......
Books Of Reference. —the Third Annual Issue Of The...
Social Progress (T. Nelson and Sons, 5a. net) covers the period between the appearance of the previous volume, September 80th, 1218, and the outbreak of the great war—which has......
Fiction.
PERCY AND OltiLbRat Tun appearance of a volume of collected sketches from the pen of Mr. Anstey reminds us of the accumulated debt of gratitude that we owe him for more than......
Some Books Of The Week.
Nati. in Das colony does not necessarily Invalids subsequent retina] Since Loudon published his famous Arboretum in 1838, no adequate account of the trees and shrubs which can......
We Suppose That No One Can Have Rend Wordeworth's Noble
sonnet on Toussaint l'Ouverture without wishing to know more about its hero, whose "Friends are exultation., agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind." The story of his......
The Student Of Early English History Will Be Grateful To
Miss F. E. Harmer for her scholarly edition of Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth. Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 6s. net). This book contains......
Readable Novels.—the Second Pollyooly Book. By Edgar...
Co. 6s.)—A farther series of loosely connected episodes concerning the delightful Pollyooly.—The Voice on the Beach. By C. L. Ryley. (David Nutt. Is. net.)—These ghost stories......
The Blind Side Of The Heart. By F. E. Crichton.
(Mauxu3e1 and Co. 6s.)—Among the characters familiar to reviewers of fiction, there is one whom we find exceptionally madden- lug — the mystical Irish girl, with deep blue eyes......
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