One For The Other : Stories Of French Life. By
Esme Stuart. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—Miss Esme Stuart is one of the few literary artists who work with equal success upon a large and a small canvas ; but if the question......
Two Scottish Soldiers, And A Jacobite Laird And His...
By James Ferguson. (D. Wyllie and Son, Aberdeen.)—This hand- some book contains biographical sketches of three Scotsmen, all of Aberdeenshire, flourishing in three of the most......
Kensington, Picturesque And Historical. By W. J. Loftie....
Tuer.)—We need hardly say that whatever work of this kind Mr. Loftie undertakes, he does well. In Kensington, the "Court suburb," he has found a particularly fertile subject,......
Francis I. And His Times. From The French Of Clarissa
Coignet, by Fanny Twemlow. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—Admiration for the Francois Premier type of man has probably permanently injured the French character, and we are more in......
Bell And Sons.)—this Curious Account Of The Chief Events Of
Henry's reign, as they struck a Spanish resident in London— trader or mercenary, it is not very clear which—came to light in 1873, and proves well worth the trouble of......
Better Times: Stories. By The Author Of "the Story Of
Margaret Kent." (Triibner and Co.)—The stories of which this volume is composed have been collected from various American magazines of good repute, and this fact is in their......
Mr. R. E. Francillon Has A Pleasant Gift Of Invention
and always writes well, and though we do not think that his Romances of the Law (Chatto and Windus) represent him quite at his best, they provide very entertaining reading. The......
Caught At Last ! By Dick Donovan (chatto And Windus),
is described as consisting of "Leaves from the Note-Book of a Detective," and belongs to a class of literature which is admirably adapted for railway reading. The majority of......
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