Letters Of James Smethans. Edited By Sarah Smetham And...
Davies. (Macmillan.)—It is impossible to read this book without being struck by it, and yet it is difficult to justify the praise which one would like to give it. It consists of......
A Reverend Gentleman. By J. Maclaren Cobban. (methuen And...
villain is enough for one novel; Mr. Cobban gives us two, and both of a hue so portentously black that they could not be easily matched in real life. Between the "Reverend......
Current Literature.
The Oxford Shakespeare. 6 vols. (Clarendon Press.)—This is the miniature Oxford edition of the plays and poems, printed in ex- quisitely clear type on India paper. Nothing more......
The Faith - Doctor. By Edward Eggleston. (cassell And...
a really admirable novel, all the more admirable in our eyes because it is a relief from the everlasting "sexual problem" with which writers of fiction now torment and disgust......
The Perplexed Farmer. By Georges Ville. Translated By...
F.R.S. (Longmans.)—Mr. Crookes has here translated three lectures given by M. Ville to French agri- culturists, together with the appendices, in which he summarises their......
Life Of John Leech.*
Iv must be confessed that Mr. Frith's Life of John Leech is very far from being a model biography. It is readable, but to Leech's innumerable admirers it will be also a source......
A House Of Pomegranates. By Oscar Wilde. (j. R. Osgood
and licIlvaine.)—The first of Mr. Oscar Wilde's allegories or parables, or whatever he may call them, is admirable. A young King, who is a passionate lover of the beautiful,......
Economic And Industrial Fallacies. By Arthur B. And Henry...
(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—The Messrs. Farquhar dis- cuss exhaustively the subject of Protection, for this is the real object of their attack; all the fallacies centre in this.......
A Pair Of Originals. By E. Way'. (seeley And Co.)—readers
who read Miss Ward's last book, "Fresh from the Fens "—those who have not, will do well to repair the omission—will remember that one of the best things is the adventure of......
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