Hans Van Bonder. By Charles Montague. (a. Constable And...
is a tale of life among the Boers, with plenty of life and colour about it. One cannot, however, help observing that the Hans Van Ponder to whom we are introduced in the first......
The Story Of The Earth's Atmosphere. By Douglas...
and Co.)—This is one of the useful little volumes of popularised science which we owe to the enterprise of Sir G. Newnes and Co. It is at least as interesting as any, and as......
The Dragon - Slayer. By Roger Pocock. (chapman And Hall.)...
the English-speaking world does the war between good and evil rage more furiously than in the United States." So writes the author in his preface ; accordingly he has con-......
Tales.—sister .tans. By Joel Chandler Harris. (a....
own to feeling a certain relief in finding "Uncle Remus," to give Mr. Harris his well-known nom-de-plume, leave for a time " Brer Fox" and his kindred to tell us a plain story......
The Money - Spinner, And Other Character Notes. By H. S....
man and S. G. Tallentyre. (Smith and Elder.)—These sketches or studies, twenty-three in number, are reprinted from the Corn- hill. They are not like the " characters " of......
Castle Meadow. By Mrs. Marshall. (seeley And Co.)—this...
scarcely up to the highest level of Mrs. Marshall's work, not so much, perhaps, because it lacks the characteristic merits of the author, as because the personages in whom its......
A Passing Madness. By Florence Marryat. (hutchinson And...
a study, after the manner which the author has lately taken up, of physiology and psychology combined. Edward Marshall and Joan are twins, and the tale is constructed, in part,......
The Wild Flowers Of Scotland. By J. H. Crawford. (john
Macqueen.)—Mr. Crawford, whose unconventional works on the natural history of Scotland have not undeservedly gained for him the reputation of being that country's Jefferies, has......
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