Burns's Clarinda. Compiled By John D. Ross, Ll.d. (john...
Edinburgh.)—This may be a harmless, but is not at all a necessary, book. A certain interest, no doubt, attaches to the lively grass-widow, who was such a curious compound of......
The Clyde : River And Firth (a. And C. Black),
whi.11 is edited by Messrs. M. J. B. Baddeley and E. D. Jordan, is a very good and singularly well condensed guide—it extends only to eighty- three pages—to what is still......
Scottish Border Life. By James C. Dibdin. (methuen And Co.)
—Although the sketches which compose this book are "original," they will be found rather disappointing, especially by such readers as hoped a good deal from the author's......
The Free Library : Its History And Present Condition. By
John J. Ogle. (George Allen.)—This is a very interesting, carefully written, and eminently opportune contribution to what promises to be the valuable "Library Series," edited by......
Current Lite Rat Lire.
In Camp and Cantonment. By Edith E. Cuthell. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a pleasant holiday volume composed of slight and superficial, but on the whole readable, "stories of......
Recent Novels.*
The Martian is a book which by turns disarms and dis- concerts a critic. The late Mr. du Manner was by all accounts a very engaging and fascinating man, and his amiability......
On Many Seas. By Frederick Benton Williams. (g. P. Putnam's
Sons.)—Mr. William Stone Booth, who edits this story of the "life and exploits of a Yankee sailor," assures us that it is "the plain story of a plain man told in his own words."......
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