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Can It Be True ? By Francis Henry Cliffe (remington

and Co.), is an essentially commonplace novel that is yet not altogether devoid of promise. Monte Carlo has claimed its suicides before Mr. Cliffe told the story of Vane and the......

Days And Nights. By Arthur Symons. (macmillan And Co.)— This

volume of verse is appropriately dedicated to Mr. Pater, and the writer's conception of art agrees with that adopted by the author of "Studies in the Renaissance." The "highest......

The Duchess. By The Author Of "molly Bawn." (hurst And

Blackett.)—There is but little to distinguish this story from pre- ceding works by the same author. Like them, it is full of Irish character, Irish brogue, and the linked......

English Prose, From Lifaundevills To Thackera J. (walter...

book of selections, which, as "chosen and edited" by Mr. Arthur Galton, has been added to the "Camelot Series" of Mr. Walter Scott, is a sufficiently judicious compilation, and......

A Summer Cruise On The Coast Of New England. By

Robert Carter. (Alex. Gardner.)—Mr. Carter, whose biography is briefly given by a friend as an introduction to this volume, was an American journalist, a man of wide reading and......