Old Materials Of A Marriage Between A Man Who Believes
himself to be a widower but is not, and a girl who does not even know he has ever had a wife, will surprise the hardened novel-reader who has encountered so many heroes in a......
Blunders And Forgeries. By The Rev. T. C. Bridgett. (kegan
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—In this volume, Mr. Bridgett exposes various more or less ludicrous mistakes which have been made by writers—and writers, too, with some claims to......
Tricks With Cards, By Professor Hoffmann (f. Warne And Co.)
is described as a "complete manual of card-conjuring." The author successively expounds the "principles of sleight-of-hand," tricks performed with "special cards" and "marked......
By Woman's Favour. By Henry Erroll. 3 Vols. (richard Bentley
and Son.)—It might be well for Mr. Erroll, when he next writes a novel, to choose a better kind of hero than George L'Estrange. It is tiresome to read of the successes of a......
John Hannah : A Clerical Study. By J. H. Overton.
(Rivingtons.) —Archdeacon Hannah was a man of great aptitude for various kinds of work, some of it work which one would hardly have thought him likely to undertake with success.......
"novels Of Action," It Is Only Fair To Judge The
books that belong to that school from the standpoint of action, and not to look for qualities in them that would appeal more directly to our personal tastes. According to this......
Dulcibel. By Gertrude M. Hayward. 3 Vols. (hurst And...
who reads this story—and it is a story which no one will find it difficult to read—will scarcely be able to avoid the conclusion that, at one time at least of her life, the......
Only A Sister. By Walter Adam Wallace. (roper And Drowley.)
—Since the author of " The Heroine," a forgotten but delight- fully clever skit upon the equally forgotten "Rosa Matilda" school of romance-writers, invented the name of "......
East Africa, And Its Big Game. By Captain Sir John
C. Willoughby, Bart., Royal Horse Guards. (Longmans.)—A list of fauna found chiefly in the plains round Kilima-Njaro, with notes upon the habits of the animals and birds,......
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