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The Pace Of A Soul. By Joseph Dawson. (unicorn Press.)—

Perhaps the assumption of the rank of a Baronet on a card would be the least likely to be detected of such forgeries, but the author should have known better than to trespass on......

Basile The Jester. By J. E. Muddock. (chatto And...

fortunes of the hero are woven with those of Mary Queen of Scots, and no more interesting subject could be chosen for a historical romance. We are compelled, however, to say......

The Italians Of To - Day. By Rene Bazin. (digby, Long, And

Co.)—It is rather a pitiful picture which M. Rene Bazin draws of the Italian peasant, and a very hopeless one of Italian finance and prosperity generally. We have just been......

The " Fifth " Edition Of The Handy Reference Atlas

of the World, edited by J. G. Bartholomew (John Walker and Co.), contains, we are informed, as many as eighty new maps, while the accom- panying text has been enlarged and......

English Essays. With An Introduction By J. H. Lobban (mackie

and Son.)—We have no fault to find with the criticisms that Mr. Lobban passes in his introduction on English essayists. We should not, perhaps, rank Goldsmith, in this capacity,......

In The Days Of Strife. By E. Yolland. (f. V.

White and Co.) —The period covered by this story is 1666-85, and the scene is France. It is concerned, therefore, with the religious strife of that time. The hero is a refugee,......

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A Stumbler In Wide Shoes. By E. Sutcliffe March. (hutchinson

and Co.)—Rupert van Halm, "the tit - ambler," and Leon, the Spanish Jew, are both capital studies of a weak and a strong man respec- tively; and the two heroines, Myrtle van......

Through The Buffer State. By John Macgregor. (f. V. White

and Co.)—Dr. Macgregor relates his travels in Siam with a chatty effervescence that is quite innocent of style or seriousness. If the reader . is thus saved the possibility of......

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