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Gossip Of The Caribbees. By William R. H. Trowbridge, Jun.

(Tait, Sons, and Co., New York.)—After reading this it is hardly possible not to entertain a suspicion—possibly an altogether unjust one—that but for the success of Mr. Rudyard......

The Stone Dragon, And Other Tragical Romances, By B. Murray

Gilchrist (Methuen and Co.), is a collection of short stories that seem only definable as the productions of a morbid brain, haunted by nightmareish visions of such things as......

Paul Romer, By C. J. Hargreaves (a. And C. Black),

is a very agreeable story of cross-purposes in love-making, with a little art and a great deal of tea-drinking and other equally harmless enjoyments thrown in. One can quite see......

The Life And Letters Of Thomas Pelham Dale. Edited By

his daughter, Helen Pelham Dale. 2 vols. (George Allen.)—It seems useless to protest against big biographies. Here are two large volumes on a subject for which one small one......

In A North - Country Village. By M. E. Francis. (osgood,...

and Co.)—Not for long have we seen sketches of country English life so full, as are these, of nature, of quiet pathos, of dry non-assertive humour, and of fidelity to the......

Jaco Treloar. By J. H. Pearce. (methuen.)—this Is A Very

clever, very carefully written, but also very melancholy story dealing with a district in England, which readers will have no difficulty in identifying from the recurrence of......

Should Possess Themselves Of This Volume. The Treasures...

Divorce Court, of the hypnotic s6ance, and of the sanatorium for inebriates, are here lavishly drawn upon. Then the lives of all the leading characters in the story—Gladys......

The Bridal March And The Watch. Translated By J. Evan

Williams. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Mr. Williams here presents us with translations of one of the shorter works—first, of the Norwegian Bjornson, and next, of the Russian......

Current Literature.

Anglican Orders and Jurisdiction. By Edward Denny, M.A. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—Mr. Denny dis- cusses, from the standpoint of an Anglican, the well-worn......