From Matter To Mind. By Marcus R. P. Dorman, M.a.
(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We cannot examine in detail Mr. Dor_ man's book. The first part contains a condensed account of the development of matter into the conditions with......
The Light Of Scarthey. By Egerton Castle. (osgood,...
Co.)—The writer of this powerful but somewhat unequal story, which centres round the islet of Scarthey, on the Lancastrian Coast —" a green oasis secure on its white rocky seat......
England's Mission To India. By The Right Rev. A. Barry,
D.D. (S P.C.K.)— Bishop Barry has utilised the impressions and ex- periences derived from a recent visit to India to make this appeal to the conscience of English Churchmen. He......
Industry And Property. By George Blocks. (sampson Low,...
Co.)—This volume is a very determined and strongly worded attack on Socialism, which the author regards as immoral in essence and ruinous in result. It would, he thinks, make......
Recollections Of Persons And Events. By Arthur Robert...
M.A. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. Pennington's first chapter is devoted to reminiscences of Clapham Common in its palmy days. Naturally these are, for the most part, not......
Conversations With An Uncle. By H. G. Wells. (john Lane.)—
These papers are certainly amusing, though the humour is not always, we think, in the best taste. Still it is humour,—and nowadays, when we are expected to laugh at so many......
Appenzell : A Swiss Sludy. By Irving B. Richman. (longmans.)
—Appenzell Inner-Rhoden is, with the exception of the city of Basel, the smallest of the Swiss cantons. It is, indeed, a "half- canton," constituting with the other half,......
The Crooked Stick. By Rolf Boldrewood. (macmillan And Co)...
Pollie Devereux, an Australian heiress, marry the honest fellow that has loved her from his boyhood—indeed she has a choice of honest fellows—or will she throw herself on the......
Current Literature.
The Commonwealth (Thomas Hibberd, London) is a new three- peany magazine, the name of which is suggestive of Socialism, at least of the type generally associated with the name......
Dr. Quantrill's Experiment. By T. Inglis. (i. And C. Black.)
—The first part of Dr. QuantriWs Experiment, which relates George Worthington's falling in love with his housemaid, the realisation of her visit to the fortune-teller, is the......
Dick Halliday's Birds. By W. T. Greene. (r.t.s.)—thia Is A
pleasant story of the visits of an angel, in the shape of a London district visitor forty-five years of age, to the home of a weak neurotic boy, who is spoiled by his parents,......
A Book Of Nursery Songs And Rhymes. Edited By S.
Baring. Gould. (Methuen and Co.)—Here we have the book of nursery songs and rhymes—not far off a hundred in all—as fine as it can be made by good paper and type, and the......
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