The Arthurian Epic : A Comparative Study Of The Cambrian,
Breton, and Anglo-Norman Versions of the Story and Tennyson's Idylls of the King. By S. Humphreys Gurteen, MA., LL.B. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Gurteen opens his ably written......
History Of The Popes. By Dr. Ludwig Pastor. Translated By
F. J. Antrobus. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We have received the third and fourth volumes of this monumental work, constructed, in a large degree, on documents found in the......
The Son Of Ham. By Louis Pendleton. (sampson Low, Marston,
and Co.)—This story, hopefully inscribed to the African Colonisation Societies of the Future, " deals with the race- antipathies" and the " negro question" in general as the......
Memorials Of The Danvers Family, Of Dauntsey And...
F. N. Macnamara, M.D. (Hardy and Page.)—One must indeed be a pedantic churl to scoff at work such as that of Mr. Macnamara. One may add that it is generally the ignorant who......
Heroes Of The Victoria Cross. By T. E. Toomey. (g.
Newnes.) —Mr. Toomey, late Colour-Sergeant of the 1st Battalion of the " Royal Irish," has put together, in this neat little volume, some interesting facts, illustrated by......
The Speech Of Cicero In Defence Of Cluentius Translated Into
English. By W. Peterson, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan and Co.)— Whether the use of translations by schoolboys and undergraduates should be permitted is a question we have often heard......
The Honourable Mrs. Spoor. By Arabella Kenealy. (digby,...
Co.)—This can hardly be called a story. One incident it has, and about this critics are specially requested to be silent. We may call it a study, possibly taken from nature, for......
Red Earth. By Morley Roberts. (lawrence And Bullen.)—...
some stories of the West (of the United States, it must be understood). Character develops there in a curious way, and a literature grows up to describe it. This specimen is not......