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It Is A Matter For Regret That The Shadow Of

the deceased wife's sister should be over A Japanese Marriage (A. and C. Black), for it is a bright and spirited story, full of colour and incident, and its author, Mr. Douglas......

Affectations, Mostly Of The Melodramatic Order, Which...

of that section of present-day fiction which depends upon mystery and "incident" It is, indeed, so painstaking a per- formance, from the literary point of view, that the......

Stray Sketches In Chaktnakpore. By Nagesh Wishwanith Pai,...

Bombay.)—This volume will be found to be one of no small interest. We know pretty well how Indian persons and things appear to European observers ; here, for a change, we have......

Cicero. By J. L. Straehan-davidson. (g. P. Putnam's...

volume, one of "The Heroes of the Nations" Series, is excellent throughout. Mr. Strachan-Davidson takes a moderate and rational course in estimating Cicero's character. The man......

Latin And Greek Verse Translations. By W. Baker, D.d. (long-

mans.)--Dr, Baker is the chief of one of the most successful of our great classical schools. He lets us here into one of the secrets of his art, for he shows us that when he has......

The Presbyterian Church: Its Worship, Functions, And...

By the Rev. Alexander Wright, M.A. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This book is something between a manual and a pamphlet, as its author confesses to have written it with......

The See-saw Of Life. By William A. Morley. (elliot Stock.)—

Everything in Mr. Morley's tale is ordered according to the strictest poetical justice. Mr. Albert Melville engages himself to Miss Violet Oaklands. He goes to Australia to look......