20 MAY 1899, page 24

James And Horace Smith, Joint Authors Of " Rejected...

: a Family Karratirebasedupon Hitherto anpu.blished Plicate Diaries, Letters, and other Documents. By Arthur H. Beava.n. With 5 Portraits. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—We have not......

Ballads And Poems. By Dora Si G Erson (mrs. Clement...

Bowden. Ss. 6d.)—On the whole we prefer the " ballads" to the "poems."' "False Dearbhorgil," for instance, is a very spirited piece of work. But ballads are too long to quote,......

A Study Of Wagner. By Ernest Newman. (bertram Dobai-...

is an admirable attempt to distinguish between Wagner the incomparable dramatic musician. and Wagner the compounder of unconvincing metaphysics. Wagner wrote heaps of tracts—for......

The Temple Of Met In Asher. By Margaret Benson And

Janet Gourley. Inscriptions and Translations by Percy E. Newberry. Illustrated. (John Murray. 21s.)—This is an account of the excavation of a temple lying between Luxor and......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we 710iiCe such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] in a distant part of the world I always send "for a Captain of the......