A Kentish Country House. By Mary Adelaide, Lady Jennings....
Guildford.)—The Hall-House at Hawkhurst was pur- chased by Mr. Nathaniel Collyer (1620-1700), grocer and citizen of London, about the year 1665 (it is supposed, by way of a......
Picturesque Ceylon : Kandy And Peradeniya. By Henry W. Cave.
(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—We have here some of the most exquisite scenery and vegetation in the world, presented in photographs that are not unworthy of the scenes which......
The Avenger Of Blood. By J. Maclaren Cobban. (cassell And
Co.)—The Avenger of Blood is the story of a young Arab chief who follows to England the man who has brought about his father's ruin and his brother's murder, in the hope of......
The Great Prophecies Of The Centuries. By G. H. Pember,
M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We cannot undertake to analyse Mr. Pember's views on prophecy. Moses and Balsam, Abijah and Daniel, are the prophets whom he seeks to interpret, on......
Current Literat1jre.
The Pour Gospels, Harmonised and Translated. By Leo Tolstoy. Part I. (Walter Scott.)—Count Tolstol has titles to our respect, but he can hardly be regarded as a critic. Anything......
Mount Despair, And Other Stories. By David Christie...
and Windua.)—Beyond the fact that it contains six short stories, instead of, what we should have by far preferred, one long one, there is nothing to disappoint us in this......
The Presidents Of The United States.* The Motto Prefixed To
this collection of biographies is Charles Kingsley's saying, "If you would understand history, study men." Kingsley, we imagine, would have resented such an application of his......
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