James Hain Friswell : A Memoir. By His Daughter. (george
Redway. 15s.)—The author of " The Gentle Life " was not a great thinker, a great novelist, or a great critic. But he was most industrious ; his life—he was born in 1825 and died......
Mistress Nancy Molesworth. By Joseph Hocking. (james...
while it was running through one of the magazines bore the name of " Trevanion," from its adventurer-hero, recalls, perhaps rather too readily, Mr. Black- more's romance of......
The Vagaries Of To - Day. By Mark Mundy. (the Leadenhall...
Mundy would, if he could, be a latter-day Juvenal, but he contrives, with his best endeavours, to be only a prolix laudator temporis acti. He has, of course, something to say,......
Africa In The Nineteenth Century. By Edgar Sanderson,...
and Co.)—This is really a valuable little book, which sum- marises lucidly and in a readable style the action of European Powers in Africa since our first invasion of Egypt and......
Verses. By Maud Holland (maud Walpole). (edward Arnold.)...
is one of the many people who write verse smoothly and prettily, with a pleasant feeling for the beauty of sea and sky; Lbut occasionally she rises above this level of......
Recollections Of Grant's Last Campaign. By Frank...
author of this book, who describes himself as a private soldier, devotes a considerable amount more of his book to grumbling at the treatment the soldiers received in the last......
I Was In Prison. By F. Brocklehurst. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—
Councillor Frederick Brocklehurst, of Manchester, who writes this volume containing his experiences as a short-time prisoner, regards himself as a " martyr." Having been charged......
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