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The Music Of A Merry Heart : An Autobiography. By

Edward Le Clerc. (London Literary Sooiety.)--This is a volume of really ex- cellent reading. " Mr. be Clare " has no particular story to tell ; various private schools,......

Fickle Fortune. By Robiva F. Hardy. (oliphant, Anderson,...

Edinburgh.)—Here we have a specimen, and not a very happy specimen, of the " claimant " story. An amiable heroine is dispossessed of her inheritance by the sudden appearance of......

Scotland In Pagan Times.*

WE are strongly inclined to recommend this volume by way of tonic to any—and there must be many—who, as they contem- plate the wild dance of the passionate pilgrims of frivolity......

Comparative Literature. By Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett,...

and Co.)—Mr. Posnett proposes to apply the scientific method to literature, which is to be regarded not as the product of individual genius (" the 'great-man theory' is really......

The Resultant Greek Testament. By Richard Francis...

Stash.)—This is a volume on which very cinch might be written, but failing that (only to be done by an expert with much leisure at his disposal), for which a few lines must......

Current Literature. •

The spirited little Scotch magazine, Sunday Talk, edited by the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, has made a new departure with a new aeries, the fourth number of which has now appeared. Its......

Signs And Seasons. By John Barroughe. (david...

a very keen and sympathetic observer of Nature. He has taught some of us, in his charming " Hunt after a Nightingale" (we quote the title from memory), to appreciate more fully......

Fiesole. By Beatrice Ley. 2 Vole. (quaritch.)—this Is A...

story of Florentine life, with two distinct threads of narrative running through it, which do not meet till two-thirds of the book are passed. One deals with peasant life, the......