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George Rayner. By Leon Brook. 2 Vols. (chapman And Hall.)—

'This is a story of jealousy, which might, it seems to us, have been 'made much better than it is. George Rayner's character affords an .opportunity of making what might be an......

Rhymes And Legends. By Mrs. Acton Tindal. With A Prefatory

Memoir. (Bentley.)—Mrs. Acton Tindal was an accomplished writer of verse, which, to say the least, often comes near to being poetry. Many things in this volume are good, nothing......

Some Quarters, To Depreciate The English Reformers.

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Weasel's Inheritance, By Annie Lucas (nelson And Son), Is A

tale which gives much of the history of the despised and persecuted Weasel's Inheritance, by Annie Lucas (Nelson and Son), is a tale which gives much of the history of the......

Family Readings On The Gospel According To St. John. By

the Rev. Francis Bourdillon, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—There is little in this work to call for special remark. The expositions follow care- fully the lines of evangelic......

The Pleasures And Profits Of Our Little Poultry-pane....

Hall.) —The writer of this little book obtained good returns in the way of amusement and of money from his venture, and is benevo- lently anxious that his readers should meet......

Miss Keith Tells Some Nine Of The Old Stories From

the Greek mytho- logy, and draws out the moral from them. It is a thing that has been often done, in one way or another, before. But it has to be done over again for new......

Windsor Castle, And The Waterway Thither. By W. H. Davenport

Adams. (Marcus Ward.) — The writer starts on his imaginary voyage from Battersea, and, as he conducts us up the river, gossips pleasantly and not uninstructively about the......

Poems And Translations. By Henry Lowndes. (c. Kogan Paul And

Co.)—We are inclined to regret that these lines were not left to the columns of the respectable provincial papers in which they first appeared. Mr. Lowndes has some fluency of......