A Book Of Reference The Utility Of Which Is Beyond
all question, Haydn's Dic tionary of Dates, edited by Benjamin Vincent (Ward, Lock, and Co.), appears in a twenty-second edition. This book dates from 1841; since 1857 it has......
Selections From The Poets: Coleridge. By Andrew Lang....
by Patten Wilson. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Lang prefaces the poems by a sketch of Coleridge's life, based " mainly on the patient researches of Mr. James Dykes Campbell." Possibly......
Indeed Deserves To Find, Considerable Favour From Country...
rather from readers who love the country. And, indeed, country: delights Sad their most ardent devotees among the dwellers in towns. Some of the subjects here discussed are for......
Submarine Telegraphs. By Charles Bright, F.r.s.e....
63s.)—Mr. Bright has a good right to deal with this subject. The business of submarine telegraphy is hereditary in his family. His father, Sir Charles Bright, was engineer to......
The Dome. No. 1, Vol. I., Ootober, 1898. (the Unicorn
Press.)—The first number of the new series of this little maga- zine keeps up its readable character. The short paper on the Japanese painter Utamaro is interesting, and the two......
Fantasies From Dreamland. By E. Gilliat Smith....
van Acker. (Elkin Mathews.)—This is a poetical version of St. Dunstan's dream, while waiting for King Edgar's appearance to say Mass. The book is well got up, and the illus-......
Sir Gatoain And The Green Knight : A Middle English
Arthurian Romance retold in Modern Prose. By Jessie L. Weston. With Designs by M. M. Crawford. (David Nutt.)—The original Sir Gawain was a very different person from the one......
The Windmill : An Illustrated Quarterly. No. 1, Vol I.,
October, 189S. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This is another magazine of what we may call the " attenuated Yellow Book" species. The design on the cover is fairly good, but even......
A Books Of Sundry Draughts. (the Leadenhall Press.)—this...
facsimile of a text-book published in 1615, which is described in the title-page as " principally serving for glasiers ; and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners,......
Ben Jonson Ms Volpone ; Or, The Fore. (leonard Smitbers
and Co.)—It was intended in this edition to decorate Volpone with twenty-four illustrations by Mr. Aubrey Beardsley, but the artist died without completing more than designs for......
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