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The Dramatic Works Of W. Goethe. Translated From The German.

(George Boll and Sons.)—" The Wayward Lover," a pastoral drama, which, together with the "Fellow-Culprits," was written during the stugent-peried of Goethe's life, represents......

Morning Clouds, By Henry Bellyse Baildon, B.a. (d....

Baildon has a certain gift of verse.writing, but is too fond of what used to be called Pindaric metres (before it was understood that Pinder followade? ry rigid rules of......

Poems, Epigrams, And Sonnets. By R. E. Egerton-warburton....

takes one hack to the eight- eenth century, by his verse. His "Simple Sermons for Cottagers " and his "Looking-Glass for Landlords" might have been written by Arbuthnot or......

Bean Nash ; Or, Bath In The Eighteenth Century. By

William Harrison Ainsworth. 3 vols. (Rontledge,) The King of Bath ; or, Life at a Spa in the Eighteenth Century. By Mrs Hibbort Ware. 2 vols. (Charles J. Skeet.)—It is rather......

A Nook In The .apennines ; Or, A Sumner Beneath

the Chestnuts. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—A family, wearied out with the heat of Florence in Juno, migrate to a charming spot among the mountains, and, first and most obvious of......

Leisure-time Studies. By Andrew Wilson, Ph.d. (chatto And...

republishes in this volume fifteen "essays and lectures" on subjects, "chiefly biological," which have appeared from time to time in various periodicals. The writer travois over......

The Dream Of Melzar, And Other Allegories, By Rev. Thee,

J. Corr, M.A. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—This little book consists of five parables, or as the author styles them, allegories, written in the thoroughly orthodoe vein and headed by......

My S071, Give Me Thine Heart (macmillan And Co.), Is

the title chosen by the Master of the Temple for a small collection of sermons, preached before the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the years 1876-78. Though, of course,......

Glen ;wavle. By Agnes Smith. 3 Vols. (hurst And Blackett.)—

The author provides herself with two heroines, damsels of ancient lineage, of whom one is an heiress, and the other portionless ; and with two heroes, both sari howl:nes, but......