Gobi, Or Shamo. By C. G. A. Murray. (longmans.)—this Story
would have been, we think, vastly improved if Professor Murray had cut off, or at least materially shortened, the intro- duction and the ending. A certain enthusiastic young......
The ` Falcon' In The Baltic. By E. F. Knight.
(W. H. Allen and Co.)—The Falcon' was a three-ton yacht. Mr. Knight took her for a trip among the Norfolk Broads in the first yeir of his owner- ship, and then made the voyage......
Cousin Ned. By Louisa M. Gray. (d. Boyce And Son,
Glasgow.) —There are some very lifelike characters in Cousin Ned, — Mr. Hamilton, for instance, who is a genuine Sabbatarian of the Scotch type, and Winnie Maxwell, his......
The Art Of Love. By Sir Herbert Maxwell. (david Douglas,
Edinburgh.)—We cannot call The Art of Love as good as " Sir Lucian Elphin, of Castle Weary," but it is cleverly written, and the descriptions of Scotch life are both true and......
A Little Journey In The World. By Charles Dudley Warner.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Warner's novel is one of the " no- plot-or-incident " type. Margaret Debree, a highly cultured New England woman, rejects an excellent young......
The Ocean Of Air. By A. Giberne. (seeley And Co.)—miss
Giberne in " Sun, Moon, and Stars " showed that she could pre- sent astronomy to her readers in a pleasant and chatty form. In The Ocean of Air we find the same ease in plating......
John Darke's Sojourn In The Cotteswoldes, And Elsewhere....
S. Buckman. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Buckman in this series of sketches describes life in a rural district. The farm-house, the public-house (d propos of which we find given some......
Two Pardons. By Henry Scott Vine. 3 Vols. (ward And
Downey.)—When Mr. Vine gets fairly under weigh, he has, we find, a good story to tell, and can tell it in an interesting way. But the three-volume form is, at least from the......
Boycotted. By Mabel Morley. (remington.)—this Is A Pretty...
some lifelike sketches of Irish affairs. Captain St. Helier takes a company of Dragoons and a squad of emergency- men to protect and help a certain Captain Boyd, who is......
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