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Trottings Of A Tender-foot. By Clive Phillips- Wolley....

and Son.)—" I never pretended to be anything but a sportsman," says the " Tender-foot " (a term which means a " newcomer ") in his Preface, when he would excuse himself for......

In Cornwall And Across The Sea. By Douglas B. W.

Sladen. (Griffith, Ferran, Okeden, and Welsh.)—Mr. Sladen has not been kind to .his poems in the choice of the garment with which he has clothed them. In the covers of books, as......

Peasant-proprietors.*

AMONG the things, new and old, of which Lady Verney dis- courses in the essays she has contributed to Fraser and the Contemporary Review, and has now collected into two volumes,......

Current Literature.

Voices Crying in, the Wilderness. (Macmillan.)—The idea of this tale is not a new one. Arthur Vane, brought up by a father whom it would be flattery to call eccentric on an......

In A London Suburb. By W. Hartley. (f. V. White

and Co.)— An amusing novel, which, seeing how dull now-a-days most novels are, is high praise. But In a London Suburb is mere than' amusing. In many mopeds decidedly original,......

Three Books On Various Branches Of Gardening May Be...

together :—Familiar Garden Flowers. Figured by F. Edward Hulme and described by Shirley Hibberd. (Cassell and Co.) —This is a good- looking volume, with forty beautifully......