Housekeeping. By Mrs. Humphry. (f. V. White And Co.)— Mrs.
Humphry describes herself by the nom. de plume of " Madge," which she is accustomed, it seems, to use in the pages of a well- known weekly contemporary. Whether any of the......
The Poetical Works Of Robert Burns. Edited, With A Memoir,
by George A. Aitken. 3 vols. (George Bell and Sons.)—These three cheap volumes constitute a very convenient edition of Burns's poems for handling, and contain everything of the......
The Laird's Deed Of Settlement. By J. M. Kippen. (digby,
Long, and Co.)—In those times, when literary conceits are all the vogue, it is a genuine pleasure to come across such an old-fashioned story as The Laird's Deed of Settlement,......
The Churches And The Churchless In Scotland. By The Rev.
Robert Howie. (Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—Mr. Howie gives thirty-nine elaborate tables, and a not less elaborate introductory statement explaining and modifying those tables. Ho......
Current Literature.
Three Letters and an Essay. By John Ruskin, 1888-41; found in his Tutor's desk. (George Allen.)—Selections from .Ruskin: Second Series. (Same publisher.)—The tutor was the late......
Studies Of The Greek Poets. By John Addington Symonds. 2
vole. (A. and C. Black.)—This is a " third " edition. Some rearrangement has taken place, the order of the studies being now chronological. The mimiambi of Herondas have been......
Frank Maitland's Luck. By Finch Mason. (routledge.)—it...
seen on whom the mantle of the late Mr. Hawley Smart, in his character of " sporting " novelist, has fallen. Meanwhile, it may bo allowed that Mr. Finch Mason is making a bold......
Donald Marcy. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (w. Heinemann.)...
have a tale of college life in America. If it is approxi- mately correct, we must say that some of the New England manners and customs are as much survivals of the seventeenth......
The Tragedy Of Ida Noble. By W. Clark Russell. (hutchinson.)
—This is among the best of Mr. Clark Russell's stories. It is skilfully opened, the comic rascality of the Yinkee skipper being artistically contrasted with the tragedy which......
I, Too. By Mrs. Gerard Ford. (simpkin, Marshall, And Co.)—
Ursula Carlton tells her story,—a love-story, of course, and there- fore, equally of course, a story of cross-purposes. Lovers in fiction, it is well known, entertain a......
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