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Poetry. — The Poems Of Henry Abbey. New And Enlarged...

Abbey, New York.)—This is a book of which it is very difficult to speak. On almost every page there are lines which are singularly happy in expression, and the leading thought......

—numantia : A Tragedy. By Miguel De Cervantes. Translated By

James Y. Gibson. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—To the ordinary English reader, the name of Cervantes is known only as the author of the inimitable "Don Qaixote." He was, however, a......

When Travelling In Cornwall As An Artist Of A Somewhat

dilettante kind, sees and ovea Honor Ross. She is at first all coldness and aversion ; but by degrees she thaws, and then, when he declares his love, she reveals a secret which......

A Tangled Tale. By Lewis Carroll. (macmillan.) —this...

who makes fun even out of mathematics, proposes various problems in arithmetic, as, e.g., under the title of "Chelsea Buns," the following :—" Say that 70 per cent. [of Chelsea......

-a The Watches Of The Night. Poems In Eighteen Volumes.

By Mrs. Horace Dobell. Vol. X. (Remington and Co.)—We see that the previous volumes of this series of poems have been favourably noticed by several papers. In some of their......

Katharine Blythe. By Katharine Lee. 3 Vols. (bentley And...

is a good novel, which would have been still better if circumstances had allowed a considerable retrenchment. The real interest of the story lies in the tragic situation of the......