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Life And Sport In South-eastern Africa. By Charles Hamilton.

(Chapman and Hall.)-1 thoroughly genuine book this is, sometimes almost offending the reader by the thoroughness with which the writer enters into the savage life which ho......

Petrone!. By Florence Marryat. 3 Vols. (bentley.)—we Were...

against this novel by the very strange English which we met with in the earlier pages. For instance, we have, "Dr. Ford knew that none of the reasons were emergent which had......

Lizzie Wentworth. By Benjamin Wilson, Ma. (virtue.)—this...

story about what is called seduction. The young woman who is here represented as a victim was, it is evident, perfectly well able to take care of herself, and, whatever we may......

Janie. By The Hon. Mrs. H. W. Chetwynd. 2 Vols.

(Chapman and Hall.)—We have a pleasant recollection of Mrs. Chetwynd's former tale, "Mademoiselle D'Estanville," a sketch of French life, showing no little humour and pathos. In......

Physiological Essays. By Robert Bird, M.d....

we suppose, resent being described as an extreme materialist ; but then, as our readers know very well, the materialism of the present s practically very far removed from,......

The Ocean Telegraph To India. By J. C. Parkinson....

—This is a narrative of the successful laying down of the telegraphic cable between Bombay and Suez, a cable upwards of four thousand statute miles in length. The work was......

Repulsive, About Mr. Fitzgerald's Novels. But His Earlier...

a certain force about them, which has of late been rapidly diminishing, and which now is reduced almost to nothing. There is some cleverness cer- tainly in the extreme ingenuity......