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Another's Burden. By James Payn. (downey And Co.)—mr....

far too skilful a novelist not to be well aware that his hero's self-sacrifice belongs to romance rather than to the fiction which has to do with realities. "It is magnificent,......

The Queen Of Jesters. By Max Pemberton. (arthur C....

Mr. Pemberton's " Queen " is historical we cannot say, but we are quite sure that she makes a very picturesque figure. There is a little difficulty, perhaps, about her age, for......

The Gods Arrive. By Annie E. Houldsworth. (w. Heine-...

Fleming and Richard Franklin are fellow- workers in the cause of Labour. But Franklin has a conception of woman's province and woman's duties not uncommon among those who hold......

The Garotters, And Evening Dress. By William D. Howells. (d.

Douglas, Edinburgh.)—These are two little "Drawing-room" farces, belonging to the same series as "The Mousetrap,"—not so amusing as that, but both good in their way as specimens......

The Nicene Creed. By J. J. Lias, Ma. (swan Sonnenschein

and Co.)—This volume is intended as a manual to be used by candidates. It is not, of course, authoritative ; but as the author is Examining Chaplain to one of the Bishops, a......

Booms Rece1ved.—the Evolution Of The Idea Of God. By Grant

Allen. (Grant Richards.)—Practical Idealism. By William Delvitt Hyde. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logos. By Wincenty Lutoslawski. (Longmans and......

Reprints And New Editions.—aucassin And Nicolette : An...

Love-Story. Translated by Francis W. Bourdillon, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—In the issue of "George Meredith's Novels" (Constable and Co.), Sandra Belloni, originally Emilia in......

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Banner (B.), Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking, Cr 8vo (Longmans) 2/6 Borland (IL), Border Raids and Railer., or 8vo (Simpkin) 5/0 Butler (D.), The Ancient Church and......