The Palate And The Hospital ; Or, Chronicles Of Greenwich.
By the Rev. A. G. L'Estrange. 2 vols. (Herat and Blackett.)—This is a good subject extremely badly handled. The subject is a better one even than Hampton Court, which has been......
The Book-lover : A Guide To The Best Reading. By
James Baldwin, Ph.D. (Patnam's Sons, London.)—Sinoe the rather hopeless attempt recently made to decide upon the one hundred volumes best worthy the reading, several small......
Floating Flies, And How To Dress Them. By Frederic M.
Halford. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Some one will probably ask " What is a ' floating fly r " Taking it for granted that the inquirer is an angler, we may recall to his recollection......
The Ghost Of An Old Love. By Violet Whyte. 3
vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—This novel might perhaps have been more appropriately called " A Father's Troubles." Mr. Kennedy, a country squire, has five pretty daughters, and......
The Works Of John Dryden. Illustrated With Notes By Sir
Walter Scott. Revised and corrected by George Saintsbary. Vols. VII. to XII. (Paterson, Edinburgh).—Eight volumes of this fine edition of Dryden's works are filled with his......
Siegfried's Crown. By Mrs. C. Hunter Hodgson. (griffith,...
Co.)—This is a story of the training, the trials, and the successes of a great musician, told with some force of expression and with abundance of sympathy, but in a style which......
Killed In The Open. By Mrs. Edward Kennard. 3 Vols.
(Chap- man and Hall.)—Mrs. Kennard mixes her ingredients of love and sport with average skill. The mixtures, however, would have been better without the bitter flavour of......
Previous page
