On The Broads. By Anna B. Dodd. (macmillan And Co.)—a.
very charming account is this of a cruise on the Broads, with an idyllic love-story to add a strong human interest to it. The scenery of the Broads affords some very pretty......
Wild Sports In /re/and. By John Bickerdyke. With...
(L. Upcott Gill.)—Mr. Bickerdyke as an author has displayed a variety of accomplishments. He has produced three novels, he has written two or three volumes of sporting......
Fanti Customary Laws. By J. M. Sarba,h. (w. Clowes And
Sons.)—This is a sort of digest, or rather, by means of cases, a series of illustrations, of the native laws, as they are allowed to stand, and as they have been amended, in the......
Paradise Row. By W. J. Wintle. (j. Milne.)—this Is A
volume of sketches of North Country life, very vigorously drawn, and full of pathos well relieved with humour. Everything is so good that we cannot easily choose any parts for......
Tobias Smollett. By Oliphant Smeaton. (oliphant,...
a thoughtful and able sketch of Smollett's career. Mr. Smeaton, while he places the enduring qualities of a wonderfully facile writer before us with a hearty enthusiasm, does......
In The West Country. By Francis A. Knight. (simpkin,...
and Co.)—There are scene charming descriptions of that romantic West Country, Clovelly, Westward Ho, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Winscomb, and the Mendips, in these collected articles of......
My Theatrical And Musical Recollections. By Emily...
Co.)—Emily Soldene's reminiscences are of tho usual kind,—a long succession of persons, plays, and theatrical anecdotes. The book is brightly written, however, has not too much......
Old Dorset. By R. Cameron Rogers. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.)—
Dorset is the Dorset of New York State, and it is the life of such a village a generation ago that Mr. Rogers describes in six sketches, each with its story of mingled pathos......
Dictionary Of National Biography. Edited By Sidney Lee....
Scoffin—Sheares. (Smith and Elder.)—A volume that contains the names of William Shakespeare and Walter Scott is necessarily above the average in interest. Shakespeare has been......
Mr. Spinks And His Hounds. By F. M. Lutyens. (vinton
and Co.)—There is a close resemblance to Surtees' sporting novels in the adventures of young Spinks, who is the son of a wealthy hair- dresser, though we have not the abundance......
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