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Mignon. By Mrs. Forrester. 3 Vols. (hurst And...

has bad the courage to follow the maxim which it is easy for critics to proclaim, but not easy for writers to carry out, that the chief interest of a woman's life is most......

The Heritage Of Langdale. By Mrs. Alexander. 3 Vols....

We must confess to having felt a slight sinking of the spirits when we read the first sentence of this novel,—" A dull November afternoon was lowering over the wild open country......

A Long Madness. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght. 3 Vols. (charing

Cross Publishing Company.)—Honor Deverill, the heroine of this story, is a woman who has aims beyond the common conceptions of duty. She has the command of wealth, and she finds......

Lorenzo De' Medici, Me Magnificent. By Alfred Von...

from the German by Robert Harrison. 2 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—The translator says, and doubtless with perfect truth, that the author's " extraordinary talent for research seems......

Mr. Charlton. By The Author Of "anne Dysart." 3 Vole.

(Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a story of an ordinary kind, such as one fancies oneself to have read many times before, and yet is not wearied in reading, told as it is with a......

Modern Physical Fatalism And The Doctrine Of Evolution....

R. Birks, M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge. (Macmillan and Co.)—The title of this book has special reference to Mr. Herbert Spencer. Physical fatalism and......