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Lord Stirling's Son. By A. H. Marshall. (osgood,...

Co.)—This is a clever story of social life,—the story of an honest man who has the misfortune to have a father and a mother who are not honest by any means. There are no......

A World Beneath The Waters ; Or, Merman's Country. By

the Rev. Gerard W. Banks. (Cassell and Co.)—The title and plan of this little volume naturally recall Charles Kingsley's famous " Water-Babies." The difference is that there is......

The Princess Aline. By Richard Harding Davis. (macmillan...

is a delightful addition to the publishers' series of " Pocket Novels." Morton Carlton, an American portrait-painter of considerable eminence, falls in love with the portrait of......

The History Of Marriage, Jewish And Christian. By H. M.

Luckock, D.D. (Longmans.)—Dean Luckock adds to his title the clause, "In Relation to Divorce and certain Forbidden Degrees." This indicates the purpose with which he writes. He......

Posts.y.—madonna, And Other Poems. By Harrison S. Morris....

Dent.)—Mr. Morris's verse is distinctly above the level of mediocrity, but does not rise into excellence. Correct, fluent, touched again and again with tenderness and force, it......