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De Quincey And His Friends : Personal Recollections,...

Anecdotes of '!'homes De Quincey. his Friends, and Associates. Written and collected by James Hogg. (Sampson Low.) —Mr. Hogg, the editor of De Quincey's " Uncollected Writings,"......

How Dick And Molly Went Round The World. By Mrs.

H. Corn- wall Legh. (Edward Arnold.)—This delightful and beautifully printed volume hardly calls for criticism. Dick and Molly, two bright-witted children, are engaged in taking......

Brighton As I Have Known It. By George Augustus Sala.

(AI and C. Black.)—The late Mr. Sala in his little hand-book has done justice—some readers may be inclined to say more than justice— to "the most famous of English......

A Man And His Womankind. By Nora Wynne. (t. Fisher

Unwin.)—This is a very careful, but also, to tell the truth, very wearisome and irritating, study of "family jars." In the Red Lodge we have a mother-in-law and a......

A Plea For A Simpler Life. By George S. Keith,

M.D., F.It.C.P.E. (A. and C. Black.)—After.a practice of nearly sixty years, Dr. Keith states in plain language his opinion of the treatment usually adopted nowadays by his......

Tommy Atkins Of The Ramchunders. By Robert Blatchford....

is a story, as the title itself indicates, of the life of a British private. The author, who, as is well known, holds strong opinions on socio-political questions, and has a......

Side - Talks With Girls. By Ruth Ashmore. (sampson Low,...

Co.)—The author of this volume, which is full of curious details, dedicates it to " the American girl," who, she says, "makes the most charming of friends, the best of wives,......