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Campaigning In South Africa And Egypt. By Major - General...

F. Molynenx. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume, which would be interesting at any time, is especially seasonable now. General Molyneux served in South Africa in the war with......

A Neglected Privilege. By Maggie Swan. (ward, Lock, And...

Blair, who marries without the faintest notion of accepting any of the responsibilities of marriage, is to us a somewhat absurd person. She does not interest us in the least,......

Literary Anecdotes Of The Nineteenth Century :...

Literary History of the Period. Vol. II. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A., LL.D and Thomas J. Wise. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume is more interesting than its pre-......

The Works Of Lord Byron. Edited By William Ernest Henley.

Letters, 1804-1813. Vol. I. (W. Heinemann.)—Lord Macaulay, writing a few years after Byron's death, looked forward to the time when the "magical potency" which belonged to his......

East Coast Etchings. By Hugh Clifford. (straits Tiff141t,...

"East Coast" is Malaya, and Mr. Clifford is the British Resident at Pahang. We cannot quite understand the pcint of view from which he regards the relations between the European......

Current Literature.

The first number of Cosmopolis for 1897 does more than justify the note of universality, or citizen-of-the-worldishness, which is suggested by its name, and was struck on its......

Quarterly Portions Of The Oxford English Dictionary...

are : " Disburdened—Disobservant," Vol. III., edited by Dr. James A. Murray; and " Flip—Flexuore," Vol. IV., edited by Henry Bradley, M.A. The latter editor mentions in his......