Old - World Japan : Legends Of The Land Of The Gods.
Retold by Frank Rusder. (George Allen.)—These legends are curious,— little like, we are inclined to say, what we should have expected from the place of their origin. They are......
The Land Of Arthur: Its Heroes And Heroines. By Marie
Trevelyan. (Hogg.)—The theorists who locate the great Celtic hero in Cumbria will find their hands full when they seek to dispose of Miss Trevelyan's arguments. She collects and......
The Sin - Eater, And Other Tales. By Fiona Macleod....
and Co.)—Does the reader wish to sup full of horrors ? Here is his chance. If his taste lies especially in the direction of " blugginess," let him read how Manus MacCodrum was......
Dainty Poems Of The Nineteenth Century. Edited By Kate A.
Wright. (Combridge, Birmingham.) — There are some very pretty poems here. Sir Edwin Arnold, C.S.I., Mr. Norman Gale, Mr. Le Gallienne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Kingsley,......
A Match-maker. The Emperor, Then At The Zenith Of Power,
marries his step-son, Eugene de Beauharnais, to the Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and his step-daughter to the Crown Prince of Baden, himself, in former days, the lover of the......
Deuterographs. Arranged And Annotated By Robert B....
Press.)—In this volume we have a critical study of those passages in the Old Testament where the same incident is repeated in language that is either practically identical or......
By The North Sea. By Emma Marshall. (jerrold And Sons.)—
Mrs. Marshall has got hold of a real historical personage for the central figure, if not exactly the heroine, of her story. Mrs. Bridget Bendyst, of the Salt Palls, near......
Mists. By Raymond Jackborns. (swan Sonnenschein And Co.)—...
interesting little stories, with a touch of the marvellous in them, as when a water-lily turns into a little girl, a daughter of the Nines, or a country maiden pays a visit to......
Punishment And Reformation. By Frederic Howard Wines,...
and Co.)—Dr. Wines gives us here the re- sult of study and of experience. He has made himself acquainted with the history of human thought on the question of punishment, and he......
Rifle And Spear With The Rajpoots. By Mrs. Alan Gardner.
(Chatto and Windus.)—This "Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India" is one of the most charming volumes that we have ever seen. Mrs. Gardner does not spend......
Corporation Plate And Insignia. By Llewellyn Jewitt And...
St. John Hope. 2 vols. (Bemrose and Sons.)—The late Mr. Jewitt put together the substance of t his book, and Mr. Hope has enlarged, corrected, and generally completed it. It may......
We Have Great Pleasure In Noticing Vol. Iii. Of Picturesque
Ceylon, by Henry W. Cave, M.A. The first and second parts of the series have met everywhere—and in Ceylon itself as much as elsewhere—with well-deserved appreciation. We are......
Books And Play - Books. By Brander Matthews. (osgood,...
and Co.)—Mr. Matthews has much that is interesting to tell us about copyright, the subject of his first essay. Who would not be a Venezuelan author ? Venezuela gives a perpetual......
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