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Poetry.—love In Idleness. (kagan Paul, Trench, And...

enough to any one who reads a page or so of this volume that its author possesses no small poetical gifts. His work wants substance. We read his poems through, and find that,......

Acionirant Judson : His Life And Labours. By His Son,

Edward Judson. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The filial piety of Mr. Edward Judson has given us here a more complete account than we have hitherto possessed of a laborious and noble......

Retrospections, Social And Archeological. By Charles...

Son.)—We are not inclined, nor, indeed, do we feel com- petent to criticise, this book. Mr. Roach Smith gives us pleasant recollections of persons—pleasant, that is, for the......

Sam's Sweetheart. By Helen Mathers (mrs. Henry Reeve). 3...

(Horst and Blackett.)—Miss Mathers' story opens in a gold-diggers' camp, called by the probable name of "Misogamy," and situated in Australia, though possessing a certain......

Sophocles : The Seven Plays, In English Verse. By Lewis

Camp- bell, M.A. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Professor Campbell has done so mach good work for Sophocles, that any contribution of his to the understanding and appreciation of......