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The Fog. By William Dudley Pelley. (melrose. 7s. 6d.) The

Fog is a very long novel of American life, setting forth the troubles and adventures of Nathan Forge, the son of a cobbler in Paris, Vt., by occupation a tanner and by......

Books And Writers.

Edgar A. Poe : a Psychopathic Study. By John W. Robertson. (Putnams. 17s. ad.) Dr. Robertson has fallen a victim to the scientific manner. In order to establish their theories,......

The Empire Review.

Everyone should read Sir James Craig's brief and vigorous article on " Ulster as an Asset of Empire." He is justly proud of the youngest State in the Empire, which is also part......

The London Of Thackeray. By E. 13eresford Chancellor....

The London of Thackeray. By E. 13eresford Chancellor. (Richards. 158.) No better_ companion volume for a set of Thackeray can be imagined than this new book by Mr. Beresford......

The Fortnightly.

Amid numerous articles on foreign affairs—including two diverse estimates of the Bulgarian revolution by Mr. A. L. Kennedy and Mr. H. C. Woods—an account of Six Months of......

The Author Of These Short Stories Is Grandiosely...

" the prose laureate of the London streets "—a greatness which has probably been thrust upon him. At any rate, we do not find any lyrical intentions in these pages, which for......

Jenny's Bairn : A Tale Of Dreamthorpe. By Andrew Law.

(Gowans and Grey, Ltd. 3s. ad.) A pleasant little tale of the life of a Linlithgow child soon after the Crimean War.......

The New Magazines.

The Nineteenth Century. The August number, to which several light articles give a holiday air, is on its political side concerned mainly with Socialism, which Sir Sydney Olivier......

The Contemporary.

Dr. William Miller, the ablest and most experienced British observer of Italian affairs, contributes an instructive estimate of " Nine Months of Fascism-o." He does not like......