Great Hen's Sons. By Elbridge S. Brooks. (g. P. Putnam's
Sons.)—Mr Brooks takes us through the stories of some seventeen great men's sons. Some of these stories are nothing more than episodes in the lives of their fathers. Mahomet's......
The Real Lady Hilda. By B. M. Croker. (chatto And
Windus.) —This is one of the class of old-fashioned stories. The heroine tells her own story, and tells it without affectation or pretence. She belongs to the sad company of "......
Robert Urquhart. By Gabriel Setoun. (bliss, Sande, And...
the most ambitions work that has yet been attempted by that very capable member of the Scottish school of fiction who in his " Barncraig " and " Sunshine and Haar " has very......
Lost Chords. By Arthur Rickett. (a. D. Inners And Co.)—
These " Emotions without Morals," as the ingenious author calls them, are a clever satire on a certain kind of literature, if litera- ture it is, which seemed to find favour......
Current Literature.
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Edited by Andrew Lang, assisted by W. A. Craigie. (Methuen and Co.)—This is, indeed, one of the most handy and useful editions of Burns that......
Memoirs Of An Amateur Rider.*
SIR CLAUDE DE CRESPIGNY'S reminiscences can hardly help challenging comparison with the autobiography of the late Sir John Astley, published not long before the latter's death a......
Names And Their Histories. By Isaac Taylor, M.a....
and Co.)—A considerable portion of the information given in this volume is to be found in the author's " Words and Places ;" but this is supplemented by new matter, and the......
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