When Fortune Frowns. By Katharine Lee. (horace Cox.)—...
is a web composed of threads supplied partly by his- tory and partly by imagination, which are woven together so dexterously that it is not always easy to distinguish between......
The Poets And The Poetry Of The Century. Edited By
Alfred Miles. (Hutchinson and Co.)—" This volume," says the editor in his preface, " is devoted to the Humorous poetry of the cen- tury." A review of its contents makes us think......
A Great Indiscretion. By Evelyn Everett-green....
hero of A Great Indiscretion makes his first appearance disguised as an unknown foundling, left mysteriously at a cottage door, the intelligent reader has no difficulty in......
The Odes Of Horace, Books I. And Ii. Done Into
English verse by J. Howard Deazeley. (Henry Frowde.)—Mr. Deazeley has not solved, or even come near to solving, the problem of adequately rendering Horace. He presumes that he......
.tohannis Wyclif Opus Evangelicum. Edited From The Mss....
Johann Loserth. Vols. I.-II. (Trubner, for the Wyclif Society.)—It is certainly strange that this work of so eminent a man as Wyclif should now be " first edited." Dr. Loserth......
A Shelf Of Old Books. By Mrs. James T. Fields.
(Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—This is a very pleasing volume of literary gossip, with just a touch of criticism, but criticism of the approv- ing kind. Leigh Hunt is the subject......
History Of Lancashire. By Lieutenant-colonel Henry...
one of the series of " Popular County Histories," books which always make us think regretfully of the genuine County History with its massive proportions and unstinted wealth of......
A Naturalist On The Prowl. By " Eha," Author Of
" The Tribes on My Frontier." With 80 Illustrations by R. A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. (Thacker and Co.)—A good popular account of Indian natural history is much needed for......
Lays Of Ancient India. Translated By Romesh Chunder Dntt....
Paul, Trench, and Co.) — This volume belongs to Triibnees Oriental Series." The translator seeks to place "before English readers a carefully prepared book of selections from......
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