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Shakespeare's Theater. By Ashley H. Thorndike. (macmillan...

6d. net.)—Professor Thorndike does not pretend to have discovered new facts, but, taking a comprehensive survey of those already known, claims to present " within the compass of......

Fiction.

MR. WILDRIDGE OF THE BANK.t READERS of Mr. Lynn Doyle's high-spirited chronicles of Ballygullion- his first essay in fiction—will turn with good hopes of cheerful • The......

Readable Novels. —the Sailor. By J. C. Snaith. (smith,...

and Co. 6s.)—A story of the evolution of a boy from the slums through sea service to popular authorship.—The Island of Surprise. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. (Cassell and Co.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Disraeli : a Play in Four Acts. By Louis N. Parker. (John Lane. is. net.)—It is conceivable that......

Jack's Self-educator. (t. C. And E. C. Jack. 3s. 6d.

net.)—" Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Terence, Plautus, Cicero. What a world of honey have we here ! " exclaimed Mrs. Blimber, referring to the stores of learning at Dr. Blimber's......