Summer Holidays : Travelling Notes In Europe. By Theodore...
(Harper Brothers, New York.)—A prefatory note informs us that the sketches of which the book is composed appeared originally in various English and American periodicals ; that......
After Shipwreck. By J. A. Owen. (authors' Co-operative...
Company.)—This little volume, composed largely of sketches of New Zealand life, has in every sense a realistic look,—that is to say, both the adventures of the authoress, and......
Gold That Did Not Glitter. By Virginius Dabney....
Co., London and Philadelphia.)—This is a pleasantly written and otherwise agreeable story. William Mainwaring is a young Englishman who, being rendered wretched by the......
A Hardy Norseman. By Edna Lyall. (hurst And Blackett.)...
admitting that Miss Edna Lyall's latest novel is dis- appointing, and being of opinion that one reason for its falling-off from the standard of merit set up by its predecessors,......
The Classical Review, 1889. (d. Nutt.)—this Review Grows...
importance, and interest. An arrangement made with scholars on the other side of the Atlantic has enabled the pub- lisher and editors to add considerably to the available space.......
Brownie's Plot. By Thomas Cobb. 2 Vols. (ward And...
do not think that anything in this novel is quite so strong as certain chapters in its predecessor, " Lucy Carter ;" but it is, nevertheless, a very bright, readable,......
Five Months' Fine Weather In Canada, Western U.s., And...
By Mrs. E. H. Carbutt. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Naturally, one's first feeling on seeing the title of this pleasant book is incredulity. But the author, who is alive to its......