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The Shepherd's Darling. By "brenda." (j. F. Shaw.)—this Is A

sufficiently readable, some may think it even an exciting story; but it has for us a certain aspect of unreality. Bonnie, the heroine, is induced to leave her home by a certain......

Luck At The Diamond-fields. By Dalrymple J. Belgrave....

Downey.)—The volume contains thirteen short stories, relating the experiences of diggers, sportsmen, speculators, and gamblers of various kinds at the Kimberley diamond-mines.......

Praed's Essays. " Morley's Universal Library." (g....

name has survived chiefly as a writer of society verses. These essays might fairly be called society essays ; for though a few of them—e.g., that on Homer, and that on "The......

Poetry.—minora Carmine. By " C. C. R." (sonnenscbein And...

we see vers de societd, we naturally think of Praed and Mr. Frederick Locker, and are consequently inclined to be somewhat severe in our judgment. "C. C. R." is wanting, if he......