Saint And Cynic. By Albert Simmons. (digby And Long.) —the
author chooses to call this a "psychological romance ;" why, we cannot imagine. It seems to us a somewhat squalid, commonplace story, with a quite unusual number of absurdi-......
The Magazines.
NONE of the half-crown magazines are very striking this month, and none are entirely without those papers which, if they could be concentrated in one periodical, would make it......
Current Literature.
Tho Universal Bible Dictionary. By the Rev. John Macpherson, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macpherson's volume. will doubtless be found useful, but scarcely by students of......
The Germ-growers. Edited By Robert Potter, M.a. (hutchin-...
introduces us to some very weird beings. These are malevolent creatures who, among other mischievous functions, spread abroad pestilences on the earth; hence the name which......
A Wild Wooing. By Florence Warden. (f. V. White.)—freda...
bereaved of her mother at the age of two, is brought up in a French convent till she is eighteen. Then, summoned away by her father, who does not approve of her desire to become......
Poor Lady Massey. By H. Rutherford Russell, (t. Fisher...
Massey is a clever sketch. She is a worldly woman who contrives to impose for a certain time on her daughter, and always on the world. Dolly, the daughter, on the other hand, is......
I Forbid The Banns. By F. Frankfort Moore. 3 Vols.
(Hutchin- son and Co.)—Mr. Moore has discovered a novel motive for a story. Commonly, it is the hero who tries to avoid the bondage of matrimony ; in I Forbid the Banns (a more......
The Travels Of Pietro Della Valle In India. Edited By
Edward Grey. 2 vols. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society.)—Pietro dell& Valle visited India in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, about ten years after the establishment......
Registrum Orielense. Collected And Arranged By Charles...
Frowde.)—Mr. Shadwell gives in his preface a brief account of what we should now call the undergraduate element in a, college. This is of more recent origin than is com- monly......
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