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Dark : A Tale Of The Down, Country. 2 Vols.

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Dark is one of the most true and living descriptions we have ever seen of life on the Berkshire Downs,—the life of the labourer and the round of village......

Current Literature.

Poetical Works of William Basso (1602-1653). Edited by R. Warwick Bond, M.A. (Ellis and Elvey.)--It is a not unnatural thought that, with scores of minor poets who have......

Nutcracker And Mouse - King. By E. T. A. Hoffm In....

by Ascott Hope. "The Children's Library." (T. Fisher Unwin,)• —The quaint conceits and fanciful imagination of the German story-teller are evident, as usual, in the story of the......

Men Of Kent And Kentish Men : A Manual Of

Kentish Biography. By John Hutchinson. (Cross and Jackman, Canterbury.)—Mr_ Hutchinson seems to use the terms, " Men of Kent " and " Ken- tish Mon," indifferently ; perhaps he......

The Emancipation Of Woman. By Adele Crepaz, (swan Son-...

and Co.)—The author argues strongly in favour of what we may call the old-fashioned view of a woman's vocation. Woman's work is to be wife and mother, and if she seeks to rival......

The Making Of A Man. By The Rev. J. W.

Lee. (Hutchinson and Co.)—Mr. Lee has treated hie subject, that of Man and his relation to his surroundings, with considerable force and a wide grasp of facts and arguments.......

Three Romances.*

DR. CONAN DOYLE has won such rapid and wide-spread fame as the constructor of the most skilful series of detec- tive stories in the English language, that some people, whose......

Playthings And Parodies. By Barry Pain. (cassell And...

of these articles have already seen the light, so that we only indicate the nature of the collection. Mr. Pain's parodies are, of course, excellent; and of the five with which......