A School History Of English Literature. By Elizabeth Lee....
II.," Shakespeare to Dryden." (Blackie and Son.)—A useful little book. It must always be difficult to deal adequately with an important period of literature within the limits of......
Unrelated Twins. By Belton Otterburn. (digby, Long, And...
a very old property of the novelist doing duty again,—twins indistinguishable from each other except in .character. One is honest, one is a villain; the bad man tries to kill......
Le Verve D'eau : A Comedy. By Scribe. With An
Introduction and Notes by F. F. Beget, B.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—A good edition of one of Scribe's best plays. The audacious liberties which the author takes with the history of......
Macaulay's Essay On Addison. Edited, With Notes, By...
Smith. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—A good school edition of Macaulay's celebrated essay. The notes have been carefully compiled, and the biographical sketch displays much......
Trewinnot Of Guy's. By Mrs. Coulson Kernahan. (j. Long.)—...
as the title indicates, is a story of the seamy side of medical life, and of other kinds of life also. There is a villainous solicitor, a rich and foolish aunt (almost......
With Ski And Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers. By Sir Martin
Con- -way. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—Sir Martin Conway supplements in this volume the story which he told in his "First Crossing of 'Spitsbergen." (Let every one take warning that to......
Jocelyn. By John Sinjohn. (duckworth And Co.)—nove]ists...
to read the satirists and parodists before they put pen to paper. Would Mr. Sinjohn have written,— " A vhort sobbing breath of wind sighed through the olives, Their bps met," if......
• ".z1 Is., All Complete," On Their Governess's Back Is
an accepted joke, but to answer in person an advertisement for a governess, offering ..t30 salary, under the idea that they would get the money, sounds a little out of the......
At The Tail Of The Hounds. By Mrs. E. Kennard.
(F. V. White.) —Major Gruffoldi, the hero of another of Mrs. Kennard's hunt- ing stories, is a really good character. Our author describes in him a type of the hard-headed......
School-books.
Spenser's Faerie Queene. Books II. and III. Edited by Kate M. Warren. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—If ever there were a poem which would bear being issued in separate books it......
King Lear. Edited By P. Sheavyn, M.a. (a. And C.
Black.)— An edition of King Lear for the use of schools. In order to avoid bewildering the young student, the editor has wisely confined his notes to what is absolutely......
L'abbe Daniel. Par Andre Meuriet. Edited By P. Desages....
and Co.)—The editors of this volume—one of a series of French authors—could not have made a better selection than Meuriet's graceful idyll, which forms an agreeable contrast to......
Some Reminiscences Of A Lecturer. By Dr. Andrew Wilson....
and Sons.)—Dr. Wilson began his career early, for he. delivered his first lecture—on the human frame—at the age of fifteen. Naturally he magnifies his office, nor are we......
Pope's Translation Of Homer's Iliad. Books I., Vi.,...
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William Tappan. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Tappan has, as he says in his preface, endeavoured "to avoid the fault of over......
Sacs Et Parchemins. Par Jules Sandeau. Adapted And Edited By
Eugene Pelissier. (Macmillan and Co.)—Sacs et Parehemins. Edited by B. Minssen. (Rivingtons.)—The first of these works is an abridged edition of Sandeau's witty and amusing......
The Famous Match. By Nat Gould. (g. Houtledge And Sons.)
—A story this of racing, in which an Australian horse wins a -match for £10,000 against a Derby winner. The parties con- -earned seem to have been fairly honest, except that the......
Milton : Paradise Regained. Edited By A. J. Wyatt, Ma.
Lond. and Camb. (W. B. Clive.)—Mr. Wyatt in this edition has chiefly followed the earlier commentators. Many of his readings are ingenious, though in some instances we are......
Some Elements Of English Grammar. By L. C. W. Turing,
M.A. (Belle Brothers.)—A useful and unpretentious little work. We have no doubt it will attain its object,—" To provide a text-book of the elements of English Grammar which......
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