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The Life And Letters Of Washington Allston, By Jared R.

Flagg. (Bentley and Son.)—Mr. Allston was an, artist of American birth who spent a considerable part of his early life in England. He was something of the Hayden type ; but, it......

Ths Future Of British Agriculture. By Professor Sheldon....

Allen.)—" How farmers may best be benefited" is the question which Professor Sheldon proposes to answer in this little volume. "British live-stock interests are of far greater......

Kings Of Cricket. By Richard Daft. (arrowsmith,...

writes about men, of whom he ha soon many since early in the fifties, and matches, quorum pars magna full He is a veteran player, considerably senior to any one who still......

Captain Cook's Journal. Edited, With Notes And...

W. J. L. Wharton. (Elliot Stock.)—It was quite right to publish Captain Cook's Journal in &dense. Indeed, it is strange that this has not been done sooner. At the same time, it......

In The Publications Of The Chetham Society We Have...

and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, 1572-1696, edited by T. P. Earwaker, M.A.; and Notes on the Churches of Lancashire, by the late Sir Stephen R. Glynne, edited by the Rev. J.......

The Great World's Farm. By Selina Gaye. (seeley And Co.)—

This is a most excellent, readable, and useful work of a kind which the author has now become quite an expert in producing. The title is borrowed from Mr. Henry Drummond's......

Victoria, Queen And Empress. By John Cordy Jeaffroson. 2...

(William Heinemann.)—Mr. Jeaffreson tells again a story that has been told before. He tells it, however, with variations. He applies, for instance, the "higher criticism" to the......

Island Nights' Entertainments. By Robert Louis Stevenson....

like Mr. Stevenson better when he has his foot upon his native heath than when he is among the palms and corals of the Pacific. There are three stories in this volume, one of a......

Elton Haticwood. By Frederick George Scott. (oliphant,...

is the story of a life spoilt by the commission of a sin in early life. It would be more effective but for the manifest extravagance of the character of Byrne. Such elaborate......

The Incomplete Adventurer And The Boom In Belltops. By Tighe

Hopkins. (Ward and Downey.)—Guy the " adventurer " is a capital character with his insouciant gaiety, but of the story we cannot make much ; perhaps that is the meaning of the......