Reynolds And Children's Portraiture In England. By W. J. Lof
tie. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a volume intended both for ornament and for utility. It is one of " Vere Foster's Water-Colour Series," and Mr. Loftie's descriptions are......
Idle Hours With Nature. By Charles Dixon. (chapman And...
Dixon always writes so pleasantly, and yet with so much thoroughness and attention to details, that we look forward to his books, confident that he will teach us something and......
The Heroes Of The Telegraph. By J. Munro. (religious Tract
Society.)—" This work," we learn from a prefatory note, " is in some respects a sequel to `Pioneers of Electricity,' " concerning, as it does, what is doubtless the most......
Poachers And Poaching. By John Watson. (chapman And...
heading Mr. Watson has collected miscel- laneous articles on birds and country rambles. There is really very little about poachers and poaching in the articles, and all that......
The Way She Won Him. By Mrs. Houstoun. (f. V.
White and Co.)—Mrs. Houstoun is one of those writers who think that the best way to bring a pure character into relief is to paint others black in as strong language, not to say......
Stimson's Reef. By C. J. Hyne. (blackie And Son.) —treasure-
trove supplies the main interest to this story. Two cousins find themselves suddenly reduced to poverty by a relative's unlucky speculation in a South American gold-mine. They......
The Picture Of Dorian Gray. By Oscar Wilde. (ward, Lock,
and Co.)—In a number of sentences which somehow remind us of Walt Whitman, Mr. Oscar Wilde enunciates his favourite maxim that art has nothing to do with morality. But his tale......
Cornered. By Norman Porritt. (leadenhall Press.)—this Is...
a bank-manager who speculates with his employer's money, of a villainous jobber who aids and abets him, of another rascal who has a part to play in their wicked schemes, and of......
A Selection From The Sonnets Of William Wordsworth. With...
trations by Alfred Parsons. (Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)—We have here nearly ninety sonnets, beginning with two in which the poet aiiologises for the limitations of the sonnet......
The Warwickshire Avon. Notes By A. T. Quiller-couch....
by Alfred Parsons. (Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)—The author begins his Avon pilgrimage at Naseby Field, one of the English watersheds, seeing that from close to the monument......
Mcfadden. (h. M. Gilbert, Southampton.)—we Are Quite In...
the emphatic commendation bestowed by Mr. G. D. Leslie in his preface on Mr. McFadden's loyal enterprise, as it is not extravagant to call it. Mr. McFadden is, as we under-......
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