The Blood Tax. By Dorothea Gerard. (hutchinson And Co....
sub-title of this book is "A Military Romance," but we cannot see much romance about it ; what there is certainly does not attract. A young Englishman, very much in favour of......
The Prince Of The Captivity. By Sydney C. Grier. (w.
Black- wood and - Sons. Gs.)—Mr. Grier's new novel is the fourth of what we find he calls his "Balkan Series." This is a series which, in spite of its belonging to the school of......
The Beau's Comedy. By Beulah Marie Dix And Carrie A.
Harper. (Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—It is only on copying the title- page that the present writer has become aware that this charming little book is the work of two ladies. It......
The Green Country. By Andrew Merry. (grant Richards. 6s.)...
again, we have the " neo-Irish " story, or, to speak more accurately, stories, for there are no less than seven of them, and scarcely to be called short,—the full measure which......
The Shadowy Third. By Horace Annesley Vachon. (john...
Shadowy Third is a study in jealousy. It is very subtle, and not a little dreary, as the description of that par- ticular defect of character is bound to be. It is very......
Novels.
THE KENTONS.* AMERICA sends us many excellent things, not the least excel- lent among which are the novels of Mr. Howells. For our- selves, we own to having passed through a......
Mary Manning. By Edith Eustis. (harper And Brothers....
love are the chief ingredients in this dish of fiction. In John Manning the first is the dominant element, over- powering not love only, but conscience also ; in George Hood we......
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