27 SEPTEMBER 1884, page 23

Things Ye - S And Old. By E. H. Plumptre, D.d. (griffith

and Farran.)—Dean Plamptre has collected here a number of occasional Poems written at intervals during the last twenty years. All are not dated, but we are under the impression......

Goddess Fortune. By Thomas Sinclair. 3 Vols. (triibner...

is very difficult to get at the story of this book, so strange, so irritating, not to say maddening, is the style in which it is written. What can be done with pages of this......

Omnia Vanitas.* The First Ten Pages Of This Book Are

distinctly "novel," and if the rest of it were up to sample, we should recognise a new power in the novel-world. Unfortunately, the sequel is a sad falling-off from the......

A Trip To America. By William Hardman. (vickers Wood.)— Mr.

Hardman's book is, for the most part, characterised by sound sense and judgment. Now and then his views seem obscured by political prejudice, in what, for instance, he says......

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The Death. of Alexander the Great. By Cecil Henry Boatilower. (Shrimpton, Oxford.)—This, the " Newdigato Prize Poem" for the year, is a creditable exercise, though scarcely......