In Verse And Out Of It. By Bernard Fielding. (digby
and Long.)—We do not see anything especially " metaphysical " in these " studies and stories," unless indeed " metaphysical" is the same as " unnatural." This quality is most......
Ivan The Terrible: His Life And Times. By Austen Pember,
M.A. (A. P. Marsden.)—Mr. Pember has thought the accession of a new Czar a good occasion for the revival of the story of Ivan the Terrible. Most folk will be inclined to say......
A Double Cherry. By M. E. Winchester. (seeley And Co.)—
This is a story of the painstaking kind that, without being obtrusively religious, are meant to " do good," and which Miss Winchester can produce with greater ease than almost......
Ancient Egypt.* Herr Erman's Translator Should Not Have...
entirely in her preface the work of English scholars on the subject of Egyptian life. She writes :—" The need of a popular work on the manners and customs of Ancient Egypt has......
The Dariees Of Dingo-dingo. By Justin Charles Maccarlie....
Bird.)—This is a typical Australian story rather of the "squatter aristocracy" than of the " bushranging " or " bail-up" sort. The Darleys, a family belonging to Melbourne, but......
The Mermaid. By L. Dougall. (richard Bentley And Bon.)—...
is the chief characteristic of this undoubtedly in- genious story, which deals almost entirely with a region—the north-west coast of Prince Edward's Island—which, up to the......
Current Literature.
Elizabeth Jane Whately. By her Sister. (Seeley and Co.)— Here we have told to us the story of Jane Whately, who was so helpful to her father, Archbishop Whately, in the later......
All That Was Possible. By Howard 0. Sturgis. (osgood,...
and Co.)—There is a great deal of cleverness of a kind that sometimes recalls "John Oliver Hobbes," in this slight story. It is eminently fashionable, being but an " episode,"—......
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