A Lion Among The Ladies. By. Philip Gaskell. 3 Vols.
(F. V. White and Co.)—This is a " military " story, and as inane as most sue& stories are when they have to do with soldiers in times of peace. As usual, there is scarcely a......
An Impecunious Lady. By Mrs. Forrester. (ward And...
Forrester tells the story of how a fashionable woman, who had never thought of anything but how to look charming, learns to feel for the sorrows of others. Her awakening to the......
Monarchs I Have Met. By W. Beatty-kingston. 2 Vols. (chapman
and Hall.)—When Mr. Beatty-Kingston has disarmed a possible criticism by confessing what he calls the "ad captandum character," and what might be called the " swagger " of his......
One Maid's Mischief. By G. Manville Fenn. 3 Vols. (ward
and Downey.)—Mr. Fenn shows in this tale the same mastery of his sub- ject, and the same capacity for telling a good story, that we have before noticed in him. He takes us. to......
A New Face At The Door. By Jane Stanley. 2
vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mies Stanley's heroine is of the Becky Sharp order ; perhaps we ought rather to say that she is a Lamia. Opal Carew is a born adventuress, with more......
From A Garret. By May Kendall. (longmans.)—there Is Some...
pathos and some not less admirable humour in this little volume. The old scholar who pawns a volume of lEschylas for foarpenoe and spends threepence of it on a poor child whom......
Uncle Bob's Niece. By Leslie Keith. 3 Vols. (ward And
Downey.) —"Uncle Bob" is a Scotchman who has made a "pile," and comes to London to spend it, and to struggle, by help of that money, into the circles of the Upper Ten. This is......
Hagar. By Mary Linskill (james Clarke And Co.)—it Is A
great relief, after the ordinary experience of the shilling novel, to come acmes such a delicate and tasteful piece of work as this. The love of Christopher Pane for Hagar makes......
The Cid Ballads, And Other Poems And Translations From The
Spanish and German. By the late James Young Gibson. Edited by Margaret D. Gibson. 2 vols. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Gilson was a minister of the United Presbyterian......
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