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Companion Poets: Poems By George Wither. Edited, With An...

by Henry Morley, LL.D. (Routledge and Sons.)— Dr. Henry Morley, the most indefatigable of editors, deserves the thanks of all lovers of good poetry for this little volume. It is......

The Smuggler's Secret. By Frank Barrett. (spencer...

has chosen a somewhat misleading title for hie romance, for it is romance, and not a thrilling tale of blood and plunder. The plot and the groundwork of the story are made up of......

Renascence : A Book Of Verse. By Walter Crane. (elkin

Mathews.)—Mr. Crane has many gifts, and has tried his skill in more than one field. The little volume does both author and publisher credit for the tasteful style in which it is......

Current Literature.

A Guide to the Choice of Books, for Students and General Readers. Edited by Arthur H. D. Acland, M.P. (Stanford.)—Guides of this class have been somewhat frequent of late, and......

Mr. Quick's "educational Reformers."* The First Edition...

was reviewed in the Spectator nearly twenty-three years ago. It has a strange, and even pathetic history. It was brought out by its author with con- siderable difficulty, and,......

Spindl.e And Shears. By Lewis Armytage. (w. H. Allen And

Co.) —This is undoubtedly a well-written and well-conceived story. There is something real, almost realistic, about the characters, a great deal more flesh-and-blood in them......

Heat As A Form Of Energy. By Il H. Thurston.

(Heinemann.) —This is one of those treatises professing to be an introduction to more advanced and elaborate works, but which can be always read with advantage. Mr. Thurston......