Studies In Life And Literature. By Charles T. Lusted....
Long, and Co.)—Mr. Lusted's prose and verso are alike sadly com- monplace. Here is the beginning of an essay on " Knowledge " :— "The beauties and advantages of knowledge are......
Ploy In Provence. By Joseph Pennell And Elizabeth Robins...
(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. and Mrs. Pennell were very much pleased with the eople and the country of Provence, and express this pleasure in a way that makes their readers feel some......
One Virtue. By Charles T. C. James. (a. And C.
Black.)—This is intended as a serious—indeed, a painfully serious—book. And yet it is hardly possible not to smile at the absurdities associated with the scoundrel-villain of......
Ships That Pass In The Night. By Beatrice Harraden....
and Bullen.)—There is a great deal of cleverness, and a good deal of human nature as well, in this rather dismal story of discontent, dullness, and death. But largo capitals are......
The Inspector - 'general: A Russian Comedy. By Nikolai V....
from the original by Arthur A. Sykes. (Walter Scott.)—The plot of Gogol's comedy is simple in the .extreme. The officials of a Russian town, a corrupt and oppressive set—this is......
Current Literature.
The Princeby Ohandos : a Memoir. By John Robert Robinson. .(Sampson Low and Co.)—The "Princely Chandos " would pro- bably have been forgotten by this time but for the savage......
Mr. Collingwood's "life Of Ruskin." The Author Considers...
apology is needed in this instance for writing a book on one who is yet among us ; and he adds that "Mr. Ruskin has been public property, so to say, for more than half a......
The Mechanics Of Daily Life. By V. Perronet Sells....
—Some of the more familiar illustrations of mechanics in our sur- roundings are taken by Mr. Sells and thoroughly explained, somewhat technically, be it said, and abstraDtedly;......
The New Eden, By C. J. Cutliffe Hyne (longmans), Is
a very clever and startling experiment in fiction, although its readers may be reminded of certain old-fashioned stories of the "Paul and Virginia" kind. An Archduke, who is......
Some Lectures By Sir George Paget. With A Memoir By
Charles E. Paget. (Macmillan and Bowes, Carobridge.)—Sir George Paget spent much of his time and power in teaching and adminis- trative work, and carried on at the same time a......
Town And Home Gardening. By Mrs. T. Chamberlain, F.b.h.s....
and Co.)—The preface to this little voluine states that it is "compiled chiefly from notes of lectures on 'Town Gardening,' given at the Portman Rooms in the spring of 1891, and......
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