Pictures Of People. By Charles Dana Gibson. (john Lane.)—...
is a fresh series of sketches in pen-and-ink by a well-known American hand. Besides pictures of society in America and England there are some studies in Parisian cafés - chant......
The Private Library. By A. L. Humphreys. (strangeways And...
Humphreys, who gives an obiter dictum that Free Libraries are institutions " of doubtful good," writes pleasantly and with all the ease of an expert about libraries in general......
Current Literature.
There is a good deal that is fairly readable, but almost nothing that is truly notable, in the fifth number of the New Century Review, which has yet to justify its second title......
Longfellow's Poetical Works. (bliss, Sands, And Co.)—this...
edition. The type is good ; the paper might have been less pervious, for the printing on the next page is not abso- lutely concealed ; the binding is solid, but light. A brief......
Polities In 1896. Edited By Frederick Whalen. (grant...
of this book happily enables us to dis- pense with criticism, for to criticise would be to write again the " leaders " of last year's Spectators. Dr. Traill, Mr. Massing- ham,......
The Compleat Angler.*
The Compleat Angler seems to grow in favour. The more restless and hurried the age, the more it seems to value this classic of quiet life. Nine years ago Mr. R. B. Marston, a......
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