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More Tramps Abroad. By Mark Twain. (chatto And Windus.)...

the Pudd'nhead maxims, with which Mark Twain heads his chapters, there is one to the effect that " it is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right,"—a sentiment which......

A Tour Through The Famine Districts Of India. By F.

H. S. Merewether, Reuter's Special Famine Commissioner. (A. D. Ines and Co. 16s.)—This large book has no claim to be called literature. It is journalism pure and simple, or,......

Banani. By Henry Stanley Newman. (headley.)—in This...

Newman records the history of the transition from slavery to freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba,—a transition, by the way, which has not yet been fully effected. Not long ago a......

Current Literature.

Van Wagener's Ways. By W. L. Alden. (C. Arthur Pearson.)— These short stories, all strung together by having the same hero, will provide any one with a sense of humour with......

The Building Of The Empire. By Alfred Thomas Story. (chapman

and Hall. 2 vole., 14s.)—The author of this book has attempted an almost impossible task, and the most one can say in his praise is that he has failed not without credit to......