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Professor Minto, Of Aberdeen, Has Done Well To Publish A

second edition of his Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. (Blackwood.)—It is a very careful and essentially sound piece of criticism, but free from the......

Example Of Its Author's Now Well-known Style. It Is...

but not offensively, religious. Of the two girls who figure in it most prominently, Marjory and Lilies, the one is sacrificed, and in the long-run sacrifices herself, for the......

From A Number Of School-books, We Select F Pecial...

a little History of Scotland (W. and R. Cham ), by Francis Watt. It is written in an easy but not too colloquial or "graphic " style, and is well illustrated with pictures and......

Men Of The Reign. Edited By Thomas Humphrey Ward. (routledge

and Sons.)—This volume is intended to fulfil the useful function of supplementing that which is known as "Men of the Time." The latter work gives biographical sketches of living......

In. Peril And Privation : Stories Of Marine Disaster Retold.

By James Payn. (Chatto and Windus.)—Readers who bay this book on the strength of advertisements which imply, if they do not positively state, that In Peril and Privation is the......