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Novels.—jack's Cousin Kate. By E. C. Kenyon. (reming-...

a medical student. Kato is the daughter of a man who writes three-volume novels under the absurd name of " Tamogen," and of necessity leaves his family unprovided for at his......

Henry Irving, Actor And Manager. By William Archer....

Tuer.)—This is a careful and, we should say, a just criticism of a great actor, of a very different quality from the hurried remarks which have to be put together between the......

Poetry.—miscellaneous Verses, By Georgiaua Ferrer. (s. W.

Partridge.)—Miss Farrer writes some six or seven thousand verses, to which we can really allow no higher merit than that of good inten- tion. Not the strongest sympathy with her......

Eight Years In Japan, 1873-1881. By E. G. Holtham. (kegan

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Holtham went out from England to assist in the making of Japanese railways, and he recounts in this volume the experiences of eight years spent in......

William Ewart Gladstone, And His Contemporaries. By...

IV., 1860-1853. (Mackie and Son.)—Mr. Archer completes in this volume what is practically a history of England during the last fifty years. We have taken occasion to speak of......

Theory And Practice Of Teaching. By The Rev. Edward Thring.

(Cambridge University Press.)—It is probable that any one resorting to this volume for actual instruction in the "theory and practice of teaching" will close it with......

Specimens Of French Literature, From Villon To Hugo....

edited by George Saintsbary. (The Clarendon Press.)—This volume is published as a companion to the editor's "Short History of French Literature," which, indeed, it is intended......