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Luna : A Mere Love Story. By Margaret C. Helmer°.

2 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—We feel perversely inclined to take a greater interest in the personages whom Miss Helmore displays to us for a brief time in her "Introduction," than......

Hubert Freeth's Prosperity. By Mrs. Newton Crossland. 3...

and Blackett.)—This is a painful story which, though written with some ability, does not attract the reader to follow it very atten- tively, or at least very eagerly, to the......

Memorials Of W. B. Marriott.*

* Memorials of the late Wharton Booth Marriott, B.D., FAA., 1 - c. Edited by Fenton John Anthony Hort, Id-EL, dte. London : John Mitchell. 1875. THE Marriotts were a gentle,......

Searching The Net : A Book Of Verses. By John

Leicester Warren. (Strahan.)—Mr. Warren does not make the advance which we hoped to find in a new volume from his pen. There is, it seems to us, less thought in these poems than......

Current Literature.

British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— The contents of the number before us are, for the most part, of the gravest kind, and though not inferior in ability......