Pauperising The Rich. By Alfred J. Ferris. (headley...
6d.)—Mr. Ferris quotes the case of an imaginary "Mrs. B.," who finds that one of her pensioners has taken advantage of her bounty to liberate himself from all works, and he......
Haunts And Hobbies Of An Indian Official. By Mark Thornhill.
(John Murray. Cs.)—This book is an expansion of a diary kept by an English official in India. It does not pretend to describe momentous events or to give general views. But it......
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A LITTLE while ago Mr, Pett Ridge gave us in Mord Emily a most humorous and sympathetic sketch of the gradual emergence from "Hooliganism" of a young street-arabess. In A Son of......
Peter Binney, Undergraduate. By Archibald Marshall. (t....
reminds us of " Vice-Versi." We might even say that it would not have been written but for Mr. Anstey's book. This does not mean, however, that it is an imitation, in any......
The Book Of Bander. By The Author Of "the New
Koran." (Williams and Norgate. 3s. Csi.)—" The New Koran" is, we see, included in the Canon of " Theistic " Scripture; we hope it is superior to its successor, which is anything......
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favourite of Edward II., and an atmosphere of romance might surround the friendship had not another infatuation succeeded it, on Edward's part, shortly after Gaveston's more or......
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