Father Hilarion. By K. Douglas King. (hutchinson And Co.)...
Douglas King works again with the subject which he found, it would seem, attractive to some readers in the "Scripture Reader of St. Mark's." The conflict between passion and......
Stories From The Faery Queens. By Mary Mcleod. With An
Introduction by John W. Hales. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)— Professor Hales writes an admirable introduction, containing in a very small compass a most instructive criticism of......
Helps Towards Belief In The Christian Faith. By E. G.
Griffen- hoofe, M.A. (Ward and Downey.)—Much that is sensible and useful will be found in this volume. Mr. Griffenhoofe has a chapter on "Good Sense," and he has evidently the......
Golden Sunbeams. (s.p.c.k.)—this Is The First Volume Of A...
"Church Magazine for Children." It has a special con- nection with the "Sunbeam Warrior," which is described as a "Children's Mission to Children." There is a series of articles......
Only An Angel. By Francis Gribble. (a. D. Innes.)—there Is
very little in this book, and it is not easy to say whether one should take what there is seriously. But it is distinctly clever. The paradoxical defence of idleness, for......
The Same As That Which Has Been Put Forward Under
the name of "Conditional Immortality." The obstinately impenitent, he thinks, will cease to exist. Their doom is not torment, but death, not punishment that goes on for ever,......
Reasonable Admiration For "ian Maclaren," But Really This...
little absurd. We look, for instance, at January 28th, and find "The snow had drifted down the wide chimney." There is nothing especially classic about that. The art of the......
The Wooing Of May. By Alan St. Aubyn. (f. V.
White and Co.)—May Lindsay is as unconscionable a little flirt as ever has been seen in fiction. Nothing but nearly breaking her back was able to cure her of the habit. Her "......
Readable, But Wanting In The True Art Of Such Things,
as it seems to us. The ideal of this kind of writing is to be found in Edgar Poe's "Journey to the Moon." There we are kept within the limits of the credible up to the last......
In Strange Quarters. By Edwin Hodder. (hodder And...
Two young Englishmen get kidnapped in Constantinople while sightseeing, and after an attempt at escape, fall into the same hands again, to be carried away till ransomed. The......
'twixt Dawn And Day. By Mrs. A. D. Philps. (r.t.s.)—this
is a story of the Netherlands in the days when Philip H. was seeking to crush the riew reforming spirit. The author introduces it with a somewhat polemical preface, in which, as......
Two Fanciful Stories, Belonging To The Very Numerous Race...
owe their origin to "Alice in Wonderland." They are cleverly written and skilfully illustrated. To judge of them in cold blood, so to speak, is almost impossible. They ought to......
A Peakland Faggot. By R. Murray Gilchrist. (grant...
Mr. Gilchrist gives us vigorous pictures of his dwellers in a Peak village. Few of them, it must be allowed, are pleasant to behold, but he lures us on by giving now and then a......
The Craftsman. By Rowland Grey. (ward, Lock, And Co.)— This
is a powerful story of the dramatic world,—playwriters, managers, and the rest. The theatre takes itself a great deal too seriously. But, granted that it is as important as it......
The Incarnation. By E. H. Gifford, D.d. (hodder And...
is an elaborate examination of the locus classicus, Phil. ii. 5-11, with a special reference to the theory of idnocrts. Dr. Gifford first investigates the signitkation of the......
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