Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita, Libri I.-p. Edited By R.
S. Conway and C. F. Walters. (Clarendon Press. 4s.)—This first instalment of Livy's great history in the series of Oxford Classical Texts has a preface by Professor Conway and a......
Essays In Edification,. By S. E. Browne And A. P.
Smythe. (D. Nutt. 2s. 6d. net.)—The authors of this cheerful medley profess themselves to be fascinated by the philosophy of "Things in General," with pedagogics as the......
Breadandbutterflies. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. (mills And...
occasionally that a reviewer receives a book which almost anyone could review better than he himself, and for this reason, that he is driven to read it at a sitting, to......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the ,cub u have nil loses reserved for review in other forms.] A Concordance to the Works of Tennyson. By A. E. Baker. (Kegan Paul,......
The Jam Girl. By Frances R. Sterrett. (d. Appleton And
Co. 6s.)—To write an average American novel you must take the same ingredients as you would for an American farce. Let the hero and heroine belong to families whose enmity is......
Readable Novels.—entertaining Jane. By Millicent...
account of a young lady who is a professional entertainer at a hydropathic establishment, and does not find the experience pleasant; neither is she particularly successful......
Fiction.
BRIDGET CONSIDINE.* Miss MARY CR0SBIE can write. It is a pleasure to read the whole of her story without coming across a single passage in which her art is unequal to her aim.......
The Director's Handbook. By W. H. Behrens. (odhams. 7s. 6d.
net.)—This work aims at setting out, in non-technical language, the powers and duties of directors and officers of joint stock companies.......
The Crowning Glory. By E. R. Punshon. (hodder And Stoughton.
6s.)—Far the best part of this story is the account of the business career of the heroine, Sophia Ree, and it is impossible not to feel a little sorry when matrimony over- takes......
Two Volumes Of Somewhat Pathetic Interest Lie Before Us— The
posthumous remains of two journalists. Some of the best Essays of Hubert Bland (Max Goschen, 5s. net) have been rescued from the files of the Sunday Chronicle by his wife, "E.......
The Americans In The Philippines. By James A. Le Roy.
2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin Company. 42s. net.)—Mr. Le Roy's death at the early age of thirty-three has deprived the world of a writer who might have ranked with Prescott, Motley,......
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