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The Bonnet Conspirators. By Violet A. Simpson. (smith,...

Co. 6s.)—This is a very amusing little drama of the days immediately after Waterloo, when Napoleon was still at large. The scene is laid in a village on the South Coast, where......

The Book Of Ballynoggin. By L. C. Alexander. (grant...

6s.)—" Ballynoggin" is situated in what we may call "Ould Ireland," a little altered, it is true, from the country of Harry Lorrequer and Charles O'Malley, but yet not difficult......

The Eternal Woman. By Dorothea Gerard. (hutchinson And...

is the story of a young woman entirely destitute of means, who on first going out as a governess determines to model her conduct on that of Miss Rebecca Sharp, and prove the......

The Knight Punctilious. By Arthur Moore. (methuen And Co,...

is a terrible trial for two unhappy young men to be exposed to a fire of contradictory but authentic wills which leave a particular estate alternately to each of them, and which......

Lovey - Lifory. By Alice Hegan Rice. (hodder And...

that our readers have not forgotten "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Here she is again, as broad-minded and large - hearted as ever, with the happy faculty of making......

Novels.

ALL ON THE IRISH SHORE.* THE paramount duty of a reviewer in dealing with this happily named volume is one of extreme simplicity,—namely, to advise any one who loves wit,......

Six Trees. By Mary Wilkins Freeman. (harper And Brothers....

6d.)—We cannot help thinking that these six "short stories" would be better, or at least as good, without the six trees. More than once the sentiment which joins the two things......

Current Literature.

ART BOOKS. Scottish Portraits. Edited by J. L. Caw. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 21s.)—This portfolio of twenty-four photogravure reproductions of historical portraits has an......