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Melmoth The Wanderer. By Charles Robert Maturin. I New...

with Memoir and Bibliography. 3 vols. (Bentley.)— Experienced publishers ought to know their own business, but speaking as outsiders, we should not have thought there was much......

" Last Words Of Thomas Carlyle. (longmans, Green, And Co.)—

This volume coutains ", Wotton Reinfred," "An Excursion (futile enough) to Paris," and " Letters " from Carlyle and his wife. It is one of those books which have some points of......

From Sinner To Saint. By John Burn Bailey. (chapman And

Hall.)—Mr. Bailey, in the introduction to his volume of short biographical sketches, or " gallery" of converted sinners, has done well to explain that the terms " Sinner " and "......

Tern Peterkin's Daughter : An Antipodean Novel. By W. B.

Chnrchward. 3 vols. (Sonnenschein.)—Australian novels have been rather numerous of late; indeed, "Rolf Boldrewood, " Taama," and two or three other writers seem to be......

Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. (macmillan.)—the Intro-...

Dickens the younger is particularly interesting Oliver Twist was written under great pressure. It was, indeed, produced concurrently with the latter part of "Pickwick." It had a......

The Yorkshire Coast ; And The Cleveland Hills And Dales.

By John Leyland. With illustrations by Alfred Dawson and Lancelot Speed. (Seeley and Co.)—Englishmen, said Thomas Fuller, should be well acquainted with their own country before......

A Valley Of Shadows. By G. Colmore. 2 Vols. (chatto

and Windus.)—This a somewhat dreary story. Surely the village llrr. Cohnore calls Sleepy Dale must have been drawn from some narrative of Puritan times. The strictly pious Mr.......

Types Of The Saintly Life. By A. C. Turberville. Second

edition. (Elliot Stock.)—This collection of studies has the same popular form, but, as delivered in "Milton Church, Huddersfield," it has a more hortatory bias. Here the types......

The Knowledge Of God, And Other Sermons. By William Walsham,

Bishop of Wakefield. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is Volume V. of an excellent series of sermons by various "Preachers of the Day." The Bishop of Wakefield is a personal......