Readable Novevs.—life Is A Dream. By Richard Carle....
Trench, and Co. 6e.)—Although the dream is for the most part a dreary one, Mr. Curie endows his short stories with individuality and atmosphere above the common. —Liliecrona's......
Messengers. By Margaret Hope. (methuen And Co. Gs.) —this Is
an extremely painful and poignant story of the utter devastation which a term of imprisonment causes in the life of a woman of education. The ruin of such a woman's later career......
Concise Dante Dictionary. By Paget Toynbee. (clarendon...
net.)—In Serravalle's commentary on the Divines Commedia, written at the beginning of the fifteenth century, it is stated that Dante studied at Oxford during his exile. "In the......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this handing w. notir. ouch Books of tho weak as has, noll Imns reoetroed for rosisso in other Jonas.] St. Margaret's, Westminster. By the Rev. H. F. Westlake. (Smith,......
The Colonising Activities Of The English Puritans. By A. P.
Newton. (Humphrey Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—It is curious that the first volume of the Yale Historical Miscellany should be written by an Englishman. Mr. Newton, who is Lecturer......
The Pessimist. By A. Newman. (david Nutt. 6s.)—if Anyone Is
really interested in listening to the outpourings of a thoroughgoing yet superficial egoist, to him we recommend Mr. Newman's novel. For ourselves, we would go far to avoid such......
Canadian Addresses. By The Hon. George E. Foster....
5s. net.)—These addresses by a Canadian statesman, both in and outside the House of Commons at Ottawa, will be read with interest by all who wish to know Canada's real feeling......
Contemporary American History, 1877-1913. By Charles A....
Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—To write the history of our own generation is always a difficult task ; we cannot see the wood for the tree.. But it is well worth attempting. As Professor......
An Elizabethan Cardinal : William Allen. By Martin Haile....
Isaac Pitman and Sone. 16a. net.)—We cannot agree with Mr. Haile's description of Cardinal Allen as "a great Englishman." He was, no doubt, an eminent Churchman, single-minded,......
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale, Tam's Bo Nialnge. By Joseph
Dunn. (David Nutt. 25s. net.)—The story of the CaaInge cattle raid, which has been called the Iliad of Ireland, belongs to the Cuchulain or Ulster cycle of Gaelic poetry. Its......
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