A Domestic Experiment. By The Author Of "ideals." (w....
and Sons.)—This tale is of a common enough type. A woman married to a foolish, good-natured husband, loves a man of a very superior kind, but is saved from any disastrous result......
A Short History Of Gondal. By Harikrishna L 61-shankar Dave.
(Education Society's Press, Bombay.)—Gondal is a protected State, which is now in the hands of a Prince who has been edu- cated on the best system. This account of it is......
Autobiography Of Anton Rubinstein, 1820 - 1889....
Aline Delano. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) —There are, as indeed one might expect, many interesting things in this book. Rubinstein began life, one may say, as a musical......
Cries - Cross Lovers. By The Hon. Mrs. H. W. Chetwynd. 3
vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—Colonel Douglas is introduced to a young lady of the name of Alison Burt, who receives him with a most un- flattering expression of dismay, and even......
Church And State Under The Tudors. By Gilbert W. Child,
M.A. (Longman.)—This is a carefully written, learned, and impartial book, which, though it will scarcely please any party, is a valuable contribution to English ecclesiastical......
The Mineral Wealth Of India. By Captain C. C. Townsend.
(Times of India Press, Bombay.)—The special subject of Captain Townsend's book is the iron of India. No country, he tells us, is richer in the ores of this metal; yet it imports......
Winter's Tale. By Mary E. Mann. 2 Vole. (bentley And
Son.)—This is a story of the " shilling dreadful " kind which the author has seen fit to expand into the more orthodox two-volume shape. It is a good one of its sort. The murder......
Kurrachee : Past, Present, And Future. By Alexander F....
(Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London.)—It is the third of the three subjects of which this volume treats that is the really interesting one.......
Modern Ideas Of Evolution. By Sir William Dawson....
Society.)—We may briefly commend to our readers this contribution, made by a writer of unquestionable scientific attain- ments, to the perennial controversy touching "......
Friend Perditus. By Mary Tennyson. 2 Vols. (chapman And...
conception of this story has something striking, and even original, about it. The hero entirely loses his memory by some accident, and the narrative of how ho has to acquire his......
Socialism In England. By Sidney Webb. (swan Sonnenschein...
Webb naturally begins with Sir William Hareourt's saying, " We are all Socialists now." He calls it an " avowal; " but, of course, it was more than half-sarcastic. However, it......
A New Lady Audley. By Austin Fryers. (swan Sonnenschein And
Co.)—This is a burlesque on the sensational novel, something in the style of the " Prize Novels," and the like, which one sees from time to time in the pages of Punch. But what......
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