A Book Of Old English Ballads. (macmillan And Co.) — In An
introduction to this collection Mr. Mabie rightly gives as the characteristic of ballad poetry, the quality of giving the story pure and simple ; the moralising being left to......
Greek Lyric Poets. Selected And Illustrated By Francis...
Nutt.)—Mr. Brook has put together here frag- ments, with now and then a complete poem, of the Greek lyrists. There are between thirty and forty of them, with some popular songs......
Among The Mdnabe : Thirteen Months In Madagascar. By The
Rev. G. Herbert Smith. (S.P.C.K.)—The M(iab are a division of the SakaLava tribe which inhabits the west coast of Madagascar. If the novas, who have, or had, a nominal supremacy......
In A Treasury Of Minor British Poetry (edward Arnold), Mr.
Chnrton Collins has given us an interesting collection of short pieces of verse. His aim is not to make an anthology of all the greatest things in our lyric verse, but rather to......
The Island Of Capri. From The German Of Ferdinand Grego-
rovius by M. Douglas Fairbairn. (T. Fisher lJnwin.)—The author tells us that he visited the island in 1855, and again in 1876. He describes the place and its people with......
The Defence Of The Empire. Edited By Lieut.-colonel Sir G.
Sydenham Clarke, R.E., F.R.S. (Murray.)—In this volume are collected the most important letters and speeches of the late Lord Carnarvon dealing with the Empire and its defence.......
The Poetical Works Of Robert Browning. Edited By...
Q.C., M.P., and Frederic Kenyon. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—These well-printed volumes contain the whole of Mr. Browning's poems, dramatic and lyrical, didactic and narrative. Mr.......
A Cuban Expedition. By J. H. Bloomfield. (downey And Co.)
—As it will probably be some time before we shall get an authentic story of the fighting now going on in Cuba from a combatant on the Spanish or the Cuban side, we may take Mr.......
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