Willoughby Court. By Getrani Buchan. (digby, Long, And...
a story in which Mrs. Malaprop's theory that a little aversion is a good beginning for love, is justified by results. Effie Penrose is made the victim of a most extraordinary......
Adulteration Of Food. By Douglas C. Bartley. (stevens And...
is a statement of the statutes that have been passed on the subject of food adulteration. These began with the 5 George I., cap. 11, though in those days our legislators'......
Memorials Of A Short Life: A Biographical Sketch Of W.
F. A. Gaussen. Edited by the Bishop of Stepney. (T. Fisher Unwin ) —Mr. Gaussen had an unusual acquaintance with Russian litera- ture, and helped to introduce some of its best......
A Tale Of Two Curates. By James Copner, M.a. (digby,
Long, and Co.)—" A short and unpretending little work" is Mr. Cop:Lees description of his tale. Both epithets are justly applied ; and we may add that it shows good sense and......
By Order Of The Brotherhood. By " Le Voleur." (jerrold And
Son.)—This "story of Russian intrigue" belongs to a class of literature which must be very well done if it le to succeed. There are some masterpieces, both in French and......
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St. Andrews in 1645 - 46. By D. R. Kerr. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—Nowadays an extraordinary amount of interest is taken in old St. Andrews, and not by Scotchmen alone. It......
Milady Monte Christo. By John Pennington Marsden....
Co.)—In spite of its too great length, this is an extraordinary story,—extraordinary alike as regards the incident with which it opens and the Defoe-like, rather than Zolaesque,......
Ancient And Holy Welts Of Cornwall. By M. And L.
Quiller- Couch. (C. J. Clark.)—We may commend this little volume, a painstaking account of the Cornish Holy Wells. They have been personally visited, and their present condition......
A Street In Suburbia. By Edwin W. Pugh. (w. Heinemann.)
—This volume reminds us of the photographs that one sometimes sees in a fifth-rate London street or small provincial town, poorly executed portraits of quite uninteresting......
John Dalton And The Rise Of Modern Chemistry. By Sir
H. E. Roscoe. (Cassell and Co.)—No one is better fitted to estimate the work of Dalton than Sir H. Roscoe. Doing this with characteristic aptitude in this volume, he adds a......
Station Stories. By Murray Cator. (arrowsmith, Bristol.)—...
is not true that the Grand Trunk Road and un- counted empty beer-bottles are the only monuments of British sway in India, so we may refuse to believe that the British rulers......
The Teaching Of The Vedas. By Maurice Phillips. (longmans...
Co.)—We cannot undertake to analyse the contents of this volume, the outcome, it is evident, of long and careful study. But it is interesting to note the conclusion to which......
Marmaduke, Emperor Of Europe. By " X." (durrant And Co.,...
is a theorist who contrives to deliver Europe from the adverse influences of militarism, socialism, anarchism, and the rest of the " isms " that threaten society. His executive......
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