Hatred Is Akin To Love. By Ptolemy Haughton. (swan Sonnen-
schein and Co.)—The story, so far as it is described by the title, might be told in a very few pages. The hero does not appear till about four-fifths of the book have been......
The Climatic Treatment Of Consumption. By James Alexander...
M.D. (Macmillan.)—Dr. Lindsay possesses two special qualifications for his task. One is positive, he has visited many sanatoria; the other is negative, he is not interested in......
With His Dramatis Personal, And To The Romancer In Awarding
them their situations and adventures. But this is scarcely fair. We might as justly complain of Miss Yonge that she is not Miss Austen. When all is said, Mr. Habberton has given......
Beeton's Law-book : Everyb,dy's Lawyer. (ward And Lock.)—...
edition" has been brought up to time. The recently passed Bankruptcy Acts, for instance, are summarised, and there is an appendix describing the legislation of 1887. The work is......
George Stalden. Edited By Edmund Lawrence. 2 Vols....
suppose that we may:consider the " edited " a literary artifice. The little drama of George Stalden's life—for it is "a personal memoir of the American Revolutionary War" that......
The Massage Case. By Cyril Bennett. 2 Vols. (fisher Linwin.)
—It is possible that some of our readers may not know that "massage" is a kind of medical or quasi-medical treatment by means of rubbing. The author, or at least the teller, of......
The British Roll Of Honour. By Peter Land Simmonds. (dean
and Son.)—This volume contains a descriptive account of the various " Orders of Knighthood " throughout Europe, beginning with the "Order of Albert the Bear" (Anhalt), and......
Ordinary Domains Of Novel-writers. In The Story Before Us...
is plenty of liveliness, though no attempt at the direct drollery of the book that first drew the universal attention of the public to its author. It is curious that Mr.......
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