The Quakers. By Frederick Storrs Turner. (swan...
"historical and critical study" is a book of great interest and merit. Mr. Turner traces with much ability and with unfailing fairness the history of Quakerism in its rise, its......
The Quality Of Mercy. By Harold Vallings. 2 Vols. (gardner
and Co.)—The writer claims the authorship of an earlier book which, by its title of " The Superior Sex," seems to indicate a satire on man ; the book itself we do not remember.......
The Order Of The Czar. By Joseph Hatton. 3 Vols.
(Hutchin- son and Co.)—The story of Anna Klosstock, a Jewish girl of Czarovna, is sufficiently tragic. The tale of her wrong and of her revenge, if it had been told without......
The Experiences Of Richard Jones. By J. Jones. (digby And
Long.)—Dick Jones comes up to London with some knowledge of Latin and Greek and other ordinary bubjects of education, very little acquaintance with English, and two exceedingly......
Fabian Essays. Edited By G. Bernard Shaw. (the Fabian...
63 Fleet Street.)—These seven essays are the manifesto of the English " Socialists of the Chair." " The Basis of Socialism" is discussed under various aspects : "The Economic,"......
Through The Ivory Gates. By William W. Ireland, M.d. (bell
and Bradfute, Edinburgh.)—We do not quite see the unity of design which the author claims for these " Studies in Psychology and History." "All the characters described in the......
Old Friends : Essays In Epistolary Parodies. By Andrew Lang.
(Longmans.)—To say that Mr. Lang has written a clever book is superfluous, for Mr. Lang can write nothing which is not clever. Old Friends has the additional merit of......
Mrs. Digby Kaufman Of Bayswater. By Mrs. Mark Herbert,...
and Long.)—At the beginning of this story we are led to suppose that the misdoing of Mrs. Digby Kaufman consists in her utilising in literary matters private family histories.......
New Zealand For The Emigrant, Invalid, And Tourist. By John
Murray Moore. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a very useful book, well calculated to supply the information wanted by the classes for whom it is especially written. The author......
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