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Marina: Or, The Mystery Of Robesdale. By R. Sebright...

(London Literary Society.)—There is an air of crudeness about the construction and telling of this story which prevents us from according to it much praise. To arrive at the......

My Wife's Niece. By The Author Of "dr. Edith Romney."

3 vole. (Bentley and Son.)—This will, we fear, be something of a disappoint- ment to readers coming to it with expectations raised high by that very interesting story, "Dr.......

The Heir Presumptive. By Florence Marryatt. 3 Vols. (f. V.

White.)—It will probably suffice to give a brief sketch of the plot of this novel. Gladys Fuller marries Lord Moantoarron, not because she loves him, but because he is an earl......

Champions Of The Right. By E. Gilliat, M.a....

preliminary paper on "Briton and Saxon," sketching in a general way the history of Christianity in our island before the Norman Con- quest, we have a number of sketches of some......

Poetry.—echoes Of Life. By Mrs. Frank Snoad. (chapman And...

book is strongly marked throughout with Rersonal feeling. The author dedicates it to her doctors ; she pleads her feeble health as an apology for its faults ; its pages often......

Suicide. By W. Wynn Westcott, M.b. (h. K. Lewis.) —from

his position as Deputy-Coroner for Central Middlesex, Mr. Westcott is peculiarly fitted to write upon suicide. His work professes to be a social-science treatise, and thus we......

Life Of Abraham Lincoln. By Isac N. Arnold. (jansen,...

and Co, Chicago.)—The biographer of Lincoln has a theme of almost unrivalled interest. The lives of most American politicians lack 040 essential to success in Europe—the issues......

The Poetical Works Of John. Keats. With An Introductory...

by John Hogben. (Walter Scott.)—This is one of the series of "Canterbury Poets." It is, like its fellows, a pleasant and con- venient little volume; and Mr. Hogben's......

Brief Essays And Sketches. By Matilda Sturge. (samuel...

Co.)—These essays are reprinted, for the most part, from two periodicals published by the Society of Friends. Some are biographical (they are mostly reviews). Of these, the most......

A Little Book About Ushers. By Frederick Feeder, B.a....

and Co.)—Times have changed for the usher since Goldsmith sketched him in the Bee as an ignorant and ill-treated animal ; bat still his lot in life is by no means an enviable......

Heart's Delight. By Charles Gibbon. 3 Vols. (chatto And...

may rely upon Mr. Gibbon, whether he elects to place his scene in our own days or in the time of the Stuarts, to give us an interesting and wholesome story, and we are not......