Old Blackfriars. By Beatrice Marshall. (seeley And Co....

is, as far as we know, a first effort in fiction. Miss Marshall, however, comes commended by her name. She is the daughter of a writer who achieved a notable success in her own......

Mr. Gosse's " Ironic Fantasy."

Hypolympia. By Edmund Goose. (W. Heinemann. 3s. 6d.)— Mr. Gosse calls his little book " An Ironic Fantasy." The scene is laid "in an island hitherto inhabited by Lutherans, in a......

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Sundry Stories Of Boy-life Must, Under The Pressure On Our

space, be noticed together. These are :—Three Sailor Boys, by Verney Lovett Cameron (T. Nelson and Sons, is. 6d.), a story of the Pacific Ocean, where the three boys lose their......

Current Literature.

THE WOMEN OF THE SALONS. Ti.e Women of the Salons, and other French Portraits. By S. G. Tallentyre. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a very interesting gallery of portraits.......

The Child's Bible (cassell And Co., 103. Gd.) Is A

well-printed, well-illustrat-d, and generally handsome volume. The letterpress consists of extracts, consecutively arranged, from the Old and New Testaments, according to the......