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Drifting Leaves. By Sarah Doudney. (marcus Ward And Co.)...

verse which Miss Doudney gives her readers in this volume • is very much above the average of merit of that which is commonly thought good enough to serve for the letterpress of......

The Atheist Shoemaker. By Hugh Price Hughes, M.a. (hodder...

Stoughton.)—This "page in the history of the West London Mission" is a true story—we are told, and can readily believe— with the names changed. John Herbert, a man of noble......

Tales Of A Tennis - Party. By Blancor Dash. (icegan Paul,...

and Co.)—These tales are supposed to be told by a soldier, a poet, a traveller, and one or two other members of a party assembled at sunset on the tennis-lawn of a......

The Ascent Of Man. By Mathilde Blind. (chatto And Windus.)

—Miss Blind's theme is the physical, mental, and moral evolution of man. It would be unfair to ask of a poet that complete account of the theory which men of science themselves......

Blue - Bird Notes : Poems. By Ira Billman. (funk And...

New York.)—In some introductory verses, Mr Billman tells us that one day he sat in his study, "aimless and dreary, in doubt of his power, whilst a feeling of pain akin to......

Agricultural Distress And Trade Competition. By D....

Agricultural Co-operative Society.)—Mr. Taller- man believes that we can produce in England as much food as we need, that "we wilfully waste as much as we import," and that "our......

Pastorals And Poems. By Crawford Wilson. (kegan Paul,...

Co.)—Many measures and many moods are expressed with more or less skill in this pleasing and creditable volume of verse. Mr. Wilson manifests a keen appreciation of natural......