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Tales Of Old Thule. Collected And Illustrated By J. Moyr

Smith. (Chatto and Windus.)—Thero are eight stories of various merit, but all well told, and furnished with illustrations that are for the most part spirited and pleasing. The......

Fiebi-marsha/ Count Moltke, 1800-1878. By Professor L....

Percy E. Pinkerton, and edited by Captain H. M. Hosier. (W. B. Sonnenschein.)—The author certainly plunges in mediae res, for his first sentence is, "it was the 2nd of July,......

Loitdon Preachers. I3y T. Williams. (elliott...

preachers aro clever, not unkindly, but not without some sharp criticism on the orators whom the writer de- scribes. There is some very just censure, for instance, on the manner......

Specimens Of Roman Literature : Passages Illustrative Of...

and Style. Edited by C. T. Criattwell, M.A., and Peake Banton, B.A. (Charles Griffin.) —This is a most useful book, giving the student a comprehensive view of Roman literature,......

Le File Naturel. By Alexandre Dames, Fils. Translated By T.

Louis Oxley. (Kerby and Endean.)—This is a really striking play, dealing with its subject in a way that will command the respect and sympathy of every right-feeling reader. Mr.......

Martin Luther : A Tragedy. By George Moore. (remington And

fo.)'—This is a book of strange combinations. We have a dedication, or rather two dedications, in French, to one English play. We have also a tragedy—whose hero is one of the......