What One Woman Thinks. Essays By Haryot Holt Cahoon. Edited
by Cynthia W. Westover. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We have no particular fault to find with the essays. We do not find in them the result which might have been expected from the united......
Phil Hathaway's Failures. By George Heise. 3 Vols....
is a story which would have been all the better if the ukase lately issued by the circulating libraries about three-volume novels had been published before it was put into......
Joanna Trail, Spinster. (w. Heinemann.)—joanna Trail, Who...
for thirty years and more of her life, suddenly finds herself the possessor of a fair inheritance and her own mistress. The life which she at last feels really to belong to......
Dick Wylder. By Richard Pendorel. 2 Vols. (remington And...
is much tedious reading in Dick Wylder and too many characters, some of them being almost impossible. It requires a more skilled pen than Richard Penderel's to keep so many......
The White 'virgin. By G. Manville Fenn. 2 Vols. (chatto
and Windus.)—This is a striking story, with all the characteristics which we are accustomed to see in Mr. Penn's fiction. The "white virgin 'S is a mine with which the fortunes......
Round The Questions Which He Discusses Is Doubtful. He...
we see, the post of vantage which a head-master's chair affords,— an admirable opportunity for enunciating principles, not so favour- able for application to practice. Dr. Fry......
An Interloper. By F. M. Peard. 2 Vols. (bentley And
Son.) —The " interloper " is a girl, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois, who marries into the family of the Beaudrillarts. She is well-educated, she is beautiful, and her money......
Early Church History. By J. Vernon Bartlett, M.a....
Society.)—This "Sketch of the First Four Centuries" is a fair and thoughtful review of the subject, taken from the Congre- gational standpoint, it is true, but not the less......
Oliver Wendell Holmes. By Walter Jerrold. (swan Sonnen-...
Co.)—Mr. Jerrold discusses successively the various subdivisions of his subject. "The Man," "The Poet," "The Novelist," "The Autocrat and Teacher," and "The Doctor" are treated......
Studies In Forestry. By John Nisbet. (clarendon Press.)—...
know very little about economic forestry in this country, even those of us who are sensible of our deficiencies. Sir H. Maxwell, who drew attention to the national ignorance in......
English Orders : Whence Obtained. By The Rev. John Bambridge
Smith, M.A. (Skeffington and Son.)—Mr. J. B. Smith sets himself to prove that "the present Archbishops and Bishops of the English Church undoubtedly, and all but exclusively,......
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