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Footprints Of The Lion, And Other Stories Of Travel. By

Major- General J. Blaksley. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—By the "Footprints. of the Lion" we are to understand the shores of the Eastern Adriatic, regions where the lion of St. Mark......

When The Century Was Young : A Story Told In

Pen and Pencil. By M. M. Blake. (Jerrold and Sons.)—This is an interesting story of national events and of private fortunes, not unskilfully mixed up. There is a brave hero and......

Mr. Schutz Wilson's Literary Studies.* Under The Rather...

of headings which introduce the volume before us, Mr. &hiitz Wilson has provided his readers with matter as undeniably interesting as it is various. The French Revolution has......

Mediwval Legends. By Mrs. Leighton. (d. Nutt )—we Cannot...

thinking that one at least of the five "legends" which Mrs. Leighton relates for the benefit of the "children of England" is. somewhat "strong meat for babes." Melusina's......

Here And There Memories. By " H—b—n." (t. Fisher Unwin.)

—By his own account the nameless author of Here and There Memories is a kind of Admirable Crichton. He has been every- where ; he has done everything ; he has known everybody.......

Journal Of A Few Months' Residence In Portugal. By Dom

Wordsworth (Mrs. Quillinan). Edited, with Memoir, by Edward Lee. (Longmans and Co.)—Dora (Dorothy) Wordsworth was born in 1804, married, as his second wife, Edward Quillinan in......

Current Literature.

It is as pleasant now as it was to Chaucer to see the new corn coming up year by year from the seed first sown by wise and good men; and an instance comes tons from America in a......