The Coming Of The Friars. By The Bev. Augustus Jessopp,
D.D. (T. Fisher Ifnvvin.)—This volume contains seven essays, which nave appeared at various times in the Nineteenth Century, and have, we think, been noticed on the occasion of......
Current Literature.
A Wanderer. By H. Ogram Matuce. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The author begins with a poTan in honour of freedom, i.e., freedom from work. He has just got free from the desk,......
The Magazines.
Mn. KNOWLES has been very successful this month, and has filled the Nineteenth Century with good papers. Two of them, Mr. E. Dicey's on "The Lesson of Birmingham," and Mr.......
The Spectre Of The Camera I Or, The Professor's Sister.
By Julian Hawthorne. (Chatto and Windus.)—We are strongly of opinion that when Mr. Julian Hawthorne takes us into the world of fantastic invention, the interest and charm of the......
The Land Of The Hibiscus Blossom. By Hume Nisbet. (ward
and Downey.)—This "yarn of the Papuan Gulf" (for "the land of the hibiscus blossom" is New Guinea) reeks terribly of blood. There is, too, a certain sense of reality about it......
Agatha Page. By Isaac Henderson. 2 Vols. (chatto And...
heroine of this story is the daughter of an American father and an Italian mother, and is certainly a very happy specimen of a mixed race. Indeed, one way of looking at the book......
A Sportsman's Eden. By Clive Phillipps-wolley. (bentley...
Eden " is briefly the Dominion of Canada, through which the author, with his wife (who contributes some very entertaining letters), travelled in search of sport, finding what......
Uncle's Dream ; And The Permanent Husband. By Fedor Dos-
toieffsky. (Vizetelly and Co.)—Dostoieffsky was undoubtedly a great novelist ; but greatness is not always sufficiently great to understand its own limitations, and of this......
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