4 AUGUST 1888, page 24

One Of Us. By Ossip Schubin. Translated By Harriett F.

Powell. (David Stott.)—There is plot and good material enough in this novel to make its numerous shortcomings disappointing. It reads like the work of a young author whose fund......

California Of The South. By Walter Lindley And J. P.

Widney. (D. Appleton and Co., New York.)—This is a curious sample of American enterprise. It is, in fact, a glorified guide-book and advertisement of Southern California. But it......

Selected Essays Of De Quincey. Edited And Annotated By David

Masson. (Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh.)—We had occa- sion, when Professor Masson's monograph on De Quincey in the " English Men of Letters " series appeared, to speak very......

Current Literature.

The July number of the Edinburgh Review has a somewhat cranium gatherum look, but it is all the more rather than all the less interesting on that account. It does not contain a......

Both The Magazine Of Art And The Art Journal For

August supply their readers with useful essays and interesting illustrations, but in neither is there any article of distinction. Miss Mabel Robin- son's paper on Hadrian as an......

The Comprehensive Teachers' Bible. Containing The Old And...

according to the Authorised Version, together with New and Revised Helps to Bible Study, a New Concordance, and an Indexed Bible Atlas. (S. Bagster and Sons, Limited, London ;......

The Magazines.

THE Fortnightly is decidedly the most readable of the magazines this month, though not so much on account of the general level of its articles as owing to the extremely bright......

The New Number Of The Quarterly Review Is Rather Dull.

Neither of the two political articles, "The House of Lords" and "The Local Government Bill," though carefully written, is in any way striking, and even "The History and Reform......

The August Number Of Cassell's Magazine Is An Olla Podrida,

and nothing more ; and even as such it is poor and schoolgirlish. The only thing that we have been struck by in it is the innocuous realism of a new serial story, " Comrades......