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The Fern Garden. By Shirley Hibbard. (groombridge.)—.here...

pleasant volume in which an attractive subject is cleverly - dealt with. The amateur may find all the practical suggestions which he needs ; the more money ho has the better for......

The Puritans. By Ernest Myers. (macmillan.)—mr. Myers'...

course, the " Samson Agonistes " of Milton, a model difficult to imitate in its severe simplicity, and little adapted to the fervent rhetoric in which much of Mr. Myers'......

Charterhouse And Eton Verses.*

• Septum Carthatianum : Floribus Triton Seculoruni Conte.rlum. Cum Gulielmi Haig Brown. Scho]® Carthusian• Archididascali. Deighton, Bell, at Soc., Cantab.; Bell et Da]dy,......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Two articles in this number are specially noticeable as showing the drift of Nonconformist opinion, that on "The......

English Versification : A Complete Practical Guide To The...

Subject. By E. Wadham. (Longmans.)—" This work," the author says in his preface, "claims to be an exhaustive treatise on English versification, giving a complete view of all......