The Law Of Public Education In England And Wales :
a Practical Guide to its Administration. By G. Edwardes Jones, Barrister- at-Law, and J. C. G. Sykes. (Rivingtons. 21s. net.)—This volume, which covers exhaustively the whole......
Novels.
A LAD OF THE O'FEIEL'S.* THE appearance of such a book as this of Mr. Macmanus is a sign, and an agreeable sign, of the times. Twenty years ago a reviewer, no matter how......
Bondman Free. By John Oxenham. (hurst And Blackett. 6s.) —if
this new book is not quite up to the high level of " Under the Iron Flail," the defect is rather in the tale, or rather, the subject of the tale, than in the telling. Mr.......
The Hebrew. By John A. Steuart. (hodder And Stoughton....
is scarcely a novel, though it presents to the reader the customary forms of fiction; in essence it is a treatise, put into a more or less dramatic form, of the horrors of over-......
Current Literat Ure.
RECENT BOOKS ON THE EDUCATION ACT. The Education Acts, 1870 - 1902. By Sir Hugh Owen, G.C.B Assisted by Charles Knight. Twentieth Edition. (Knight aim Co. • 21s. net.)—All those......
Trent's Trust. By Bret Harte. (eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—these...
all characteristic of their author; in one of them at least there is almost a repetition of earlier work. Concha, "the Pupil of Chestnut Ridge," a Mexican young woman posing as......
Knitters In The Sun. By Algernon Gissing. (chatto And...
6s.)—This is a very " topsy-turvy " kind of story. Why Mr. Gissing should have made his two heroines—both finely drawn characters and worthy of a happier fate—act as they did......
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