2 DECEMBER 1893, page 39

Miss Twining's Reminiscences.*

THILIVA can be few people better qualified than Miss Louisa Twining to pass in review the losses and gains of civilisation during the last half-century. On the one hand she......

Current Literature.

The History of South Australia. By Edwin Hodder. 2 vols. (Sampson, Low, and Co.)—This seems to be very impartially written, and though there is little in the way of humour or......

Verses. By Christina Rossetti. (s.p.c.k.)—these Verses...

volumes of devotional poetry which Miss Rossetti has published, viz.," Called to be Saints," "Time Flies," and "The Face of the Deep." They are arranged under various heads. The......

Passion's Aftermath. By J. Mark Foster. (digby, Long, And...

—The plot of this story is about as bizarre, and, we may add, as repulsive, as anything that has ever come within our experience. Mona Aveling is an artist, and his sister......

The Merry Month, And Other Pieces. By H. B. %mon.

(Fisher Unwin.)—These short articles are reprinted from the Scottish Leader, and include a variety of topics, from a "Defence of the Dog" to the Ober-Ammergau Passion-Play. Much......

My Musical Life And Recollections, By Jules Riinre....

Low, Marston, and Co.)—M Riviere's autobiography is not the least entertaining of the many volumes of reminiscences with which the public has of late been favoured. He was in......