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A Young Wife's Story. By Harriette Bowra. 3 Vols. (sampson

Low and Co.)—It is always an act of courage when a novelist accepts the advice that is so frequently offered, and begins a heroine's story with her marriage. Of course it is......

Stanford's Compendium Of Geography And Travel: Central...

Indies, and South America. Edited by H. W. Bates. (E. Stanford.)—This volume, like that dealing with Africa, which we noticed some months ago, is based upon Hellwald's "Die'......

Fantasy And Passion. By Edgar Fawcett. (roberts Brothers,...

is a volume of verse, wrought out with much care, and no little success. It is rash in these days, when culture is so widely spread, and there is so much of the questioning......

The Siege Of Constantinople. By C. R. Eaglestone....

is an "historical romance," which the special interest now felt in its subject may tempt the reader to take up. He will flha the story of the fall of the city and the last......

Current Literature.

early days in British India, the days when we were yet strangers in the land, or slowly making our way to that power which now overshadows the whole. The modern historian has to......

Caleb Booth's Cie I. By Mrs. G. Linnains Banks. 3

vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This novel is not as good as "The Manchester Man," but that indeed was hardly to be expected. In that tale Mrs. Banks had a rare stock of originals......