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Temptation. By Graham Irving. (ward, Lock, And Co.)—an...

tells us that the novel can never fail for want of subjects, as long as the novelist has two men and a maid, or a man and two maids to write about. Still, it is a fact that......

Angling Days. By Jonathan Dale. (elliot Stock.)—from...

would seem that the author is more a lover of Nature than an ardent fisherman, and should the end of the day find his basket empty, he feels not unrewarded if his favourite......

The Cities And Bishoprics Of Phrygia. By W. M. Ramsay,

D.C.L. Vol. I., Parts I. and II. (The Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)—Pro- fessor Ramsay is the type of the scholar who digs. He writes in the introduction, "Almost every village on......

Renaud Of Montauban. First Done Into English By William...

and now abridged and retranslated by Robert Steele. (George Allen. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Steele complains, or laments, that whereas the Arthur legend has caught hold of the popular......

The Lesbia Of Catullus. By J. H. A. Tremenheere. (t.

Fisher 17nwin.)—Mr. Tremenheere has arranged in the order the poems addressed to Lesbia (in the texts they are wholly confused), and has rendered them into English, with much......

Beauties And Antiquities Of Ireland. By T. 0. Russell....

Paul, Trench, and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Russell has given us here a very interesting book. He is evidently the right man for the work. He knows what he is writing about, and loves......

The Settling Of Bertie Merian. By Naranjo. Imarga. (j. W.

Arrowsmith.)—A very curiously disjointed story this, distinctly clever, but lacking in cohesion in a quite unusual degree. Bertie Merian is in love with Sttncha De Saravia when......