Paradise Row. By W. J. Wintle. (j. Milne.)—This is a
volume of sketches of North Country life, very vigorously drawn, and full of pathos well relieved with humour. Everything is so good that we cannot easily choose any parts for special praise. The Rev. Oswald Ward, however, should be mentioned. He is an Indepen- dent minister, and has the characteristics which it is usual in fiction to reserve for the muscular Anglican. The volume shows throughout a large power of sympathy and great breadth of thought.—Ayrshire Idylls of Other Days. By George Umber. (Alexander Gardner.)—We cannot say that we have found these sketches equal to what we expected from the author's earlier work, "In My City Garden." Possibly the ground has been gleaned too diligently before, whereas in the "City Garden" Mr. Umber had a little region of his own to talk about. Still, these " Idylls " are evidently drawn from Nature, and will be found interesting.—Frivo/a. By Augustus Jessopp, D.D. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Dr. Jessopp reprints here a number of papers which have appeared in various periodicals. (It would have been as well, perhaps, to say something on this point. Possibly some of the essays see the light for the first time ; of some, as "An Anti- quary's Ghost Story," we have a distinct remembrance.) Dr. Jessopp has a liking for the preternatural. In "The Phantom
Coach" he collects some curious instances of a belief known in many parts of the world, and curiously varied to suit the habits of different places. In a land of mountains the spectral appear; ance is of a huntsman ; in the levels of East Anglia it is a coach and horses. All readers will be glad to have these essays, stories, and sketches thus brought together.
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