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Golden - Hair. I Tale Of The Pilgrim Fathers. By Sir L.

Wraxall, Bart. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—A thoroughly good boys' book. The story is full of incident, and always moves on, and it has the groat ad- vantage of having......

The Globe Shakespeare.*

WHEN a few months back half the literary men in London and all the actors and actresses were quarrelling in honour of Shake- speare, the brightest idea which suggested itself to......

Belforest. By The Author Of Mary Powell. (bentley.)—a...

very unequal novel, in which the author seems to have been pene- trated with a wish to imitate Miss Mitford. The story opens admir- ably, introducing us to quite an original......

What Men Have Said About Women. Compiled By H. Southgate,

with Illustrations by J. D. Watson. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.)— The ladies ought to support Mr. Southgate, for ho has collected to- gether a very pretty volume, full of......

The Lake Country. By E. Lynn Linton, With One Hundred

illustra- tions by W. J. Linton. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Apparently a companion volume to Mr. Wise's New Forest, also illustrated by Mr. W. J. Linton, which the same publishers......

Current Literature.

wealth on a plain yeoman's family of old blood, but so little acquainted with conventions that the father shakes hands with his butler, and when introduced to finger-glasses......