Alter Ego. By Austen Pember. (j. And R. Maxwell.)—this Is
a powerful story, turning on the tragical situation of a man who is bound professionally to hold up high ideals to his fellows and is conscious of being himself absolutely......
Salvage : A Collection Of Stories. By Hawley Smart. (chapman
and Hall.)—Captain Smart's stories are as free from any didactic purpose as Dr. Karl Hillebrand himself would desire, except, perhaps, that they unconsciously point the moral......
Di Fawcett : One Year Of Her Life. By C.
L. Pirkis. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This story is told in a vivid style. The situation, indeed, is one of the social difficulties out of which some- thing may readily be......
The Early Ancestors Of The Prince Of Wales : An
Historical Tour. By Shepherd T. Taylor, M.B. (Williams and Norgate.)—These " ancestors " are the princes, majores on the father's side, the Electors of Saxony, and the......
Illustrations Of The Author Of Waverley : Being Notices And
Anecdotes of Real Charact , rs, Scenes and Incidents. By Robert Chambers. Third edition. (W. and R. Chambers.)—This work was first published in 1822, and a second edition,......
Current Literature.
Cowdray : the History of a Great English House. By Mrs. Charles Roundel!. (Bickers and Son.) — This history was certainly worth telling. Cowdray was built by Sir William......
For Ever And Never. By J. Palgrave Simpson. 2 Vols.
(Chapman and Hall.)—Baronets in real life are not, we fancy, worse than other men ; but in fiction they are sadly apt to be wicked. Very wicked certainly is Sir Cyril Norton.......
Dr. Benjamin Ridge Publishes A New Edition Of Ourselves :
Our Food and Our Physic (Charles Higham), very much enlarged from the original, which appeared in 1861, and of which we are told that fifteen thousand were sold in the course of......
Silver And Gold. By Jessie Sale Lloyd. 2 Vols. (f.
V. White and Co.)—This is really very poor work indeed. The first "silver and gold" in the story are furnished by an old man's silver hair, and his granddaughter's golden locks.......
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