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Sir Walter Scott. By George Saintsbury. "famous Scots...

Anderson, and Ferrier.)—There are few living authors blessed with a keener or more generous apprecia- tion of good literature than Mr. Saintsbury. He judges wisely, but he loves......

Croquet, By Arthur Lillie (longmans And Co.), Gives The...

of the game—one that is rising, by the way, out of the neglect into which it fell some years ago—and directions as to how it is to be played.—With this may be mentioned South......

The Magazines.

IN the Nineteenth Century M. Francis de Pressens6, the Foreign editor of the Temps, writes a friendly article on "France, Russia, and the England of the Jubilee." The point of......

To Luniland With A Moon - Goblin : A Fairy - Tale. By Mary

L. Pondered. Pictures and Cover-Design by Little Dorothy Hope (Marshall Russell and Co.)—This is a most delightful fairy- tale. The grown-up author writes as if she were a......

Current Literature.

The Edinburgh Review. July. (Longmans and Co )—This is a highly interesting number, one which should go a good way towards showing that the old quarterlies are not so much out......

The Expositor. Vol. V., Fifth Series. (hodder And...

volume, which is of at least average merit, begins with a severe review of Dr. Watson's "Mind of the Master" from the pen of the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Among other......