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The Scandinavian Ring. By J. Pomeroy. 3 Vols. (tinsloy.)—...

of ordinary novels would, we think, consult their own interests, which centre, it may be presumed, in being read, if they would make their stories easily intelligible. Most......

Tender Tyrants. By Joseph Verey. 8 Vols. (tinsley.)—mr....

that "brother journalists and critics will recognise in Tender Tyrants a spirit akin to that which has animated him on previous occa- sions in writing for the Press." We have no......

Lilliput Legends. By The Author Of Lilliput Levee."...

Levee" was so very clever that we feel the more disappointed at not being able to say very much in praise of Lilliput Legends. But it seems to us that the author falls into the......

My Cousin Maurice. (sampson Low And Co.)—this Novel...

us the effect of a translation from the German, and yet we con- clude it is not a translation, as there is no intimation to that effect in its form or upon its title-page. It is......

Bruna's Revenge. By The Author Of "caste." 3 Vols. (hurst

and Blacket.)—Bruna's Revenge is the longest of four stories which the author has included in the orthodox three volumes, by what is surely a somewhat perverse adherence to an......

China's Place In Philology. By Joseph Edkins, Ba....

present writer is not one of the few Englishmen who have a right to give an opinion on the merits of a book on the affinities of Chinese with the Aryan and Semitic languages. He......

Sancho Panza's Proverbs, And Others Which Occup In Don...

With a literal English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke. (Pickering.)—Were it not that so much has been written on the proverbs of all nations, it......

Sorties From Gib. By E. Dyne Fenton. (tinsley.)—a Number Of

stories and sketches strung together by a somewhat loose tie, the fact of their having in one way or other come across the author's *bur.. vation or experience while he was in......