A Born Soldier. By John Strange Winter. (f. V. White
and Co.)—" John Strange Winter's" soldiers seldom do much in the fighting line. They excel in love and sport. A "born soldier" might, we thought, be an exception. It is not so.......
It Bread And Butter Miss. By George Paston. (osgood,...
and Co.)—Notwithstanding its title, this story is scarcely one for a "bread-and-butter Miss" to read. Theodora Western is invited by her cousin Cara. She fancies the invita-......
Latin Phrase - Book. By C. Meissner. Translated By H. W....
M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" Ideally speaking," writes Mr. Auden with perfect truth, "a phrase-book should always be compiled by the pupil himself from his own individual......
With Havelock From Allahabad To Lucknow, 1857. (sampson...
and Co.)—This volume contains extracts from letters written by an officer in the First Madras Royal Fusiliers to his wife. It cannot be said that we learn anything from them ;......
Roman Gossip. By Frances Elliot. (john Murray.)—the Title...
Elliot has given to her book disarms criticism. The severest judge could not deny that the contents answer exactly to the description which this gives of them. We are not led to......
Love In Idleness. By F. Marion Crawford. (macmillan And...
This is a short story, some hundred and sixty pages, neither large nor closely printed, and it is certainly slight in texture. It is of the "no-incident" kind, and the......
Ecce Ancilla Domini. By Elizabeth Rundle Charles....
has put together in this little volume a number of "Studies in the Christian Ideal of Womanhood," suggested by the notices which the Evangelists have left us of "Mary the Mother......
Pudd'nhead Wilson. By " Mark Twain." (chatto And Windus.)...
Mr. Samuel H. Clemens found Missouri audiences or readers slow to appreciate his jokes P Mr. David Wilson comes to a Missouri town to push his fortunes. Unluckily his first......
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