A Hero Of The Pen. By E. Werner. From The
German, by Sarah Phillips. 2 vols. (S. Low and Co.)—The main interest of this story is of a distasteful kind, and though not nnfreqnently made use of by Continental novelists,......
Spain In Profile. By James A. Harrison. (houghton And Osgood
Boston, U.S.; Trailer, London.)—We have had not a few charming books of travel from the other side of the Atlantic, during the forty years or so that have passed since Mr.......
Expressive Phrase, By Which We Have Heard Irish Peasants...
a certainty of recognition beyond betrayal by time. Stories which turn upon the successful concealment of an individual's identity from the knowledge of relatives and friends......
The ..eneid Of Virgil. Translated Into English, By John D.
Long. (Lockwood, Brooks, and Co., Boston, U.S. Trebner and Co., London.) —When a translator says in his preface that his work is a pas- . time of a year, and that it is not......
The Little Princess Colonzbe. By Gina Rose. (samuel...
Co.)—The last paragraph of this harmless and readable story is a fair sample of its style and its aim :—" Sweet Colombo, looked most interesting in her pretty wedding......
The Parson O' Rumford. By George Manville Fenn. (chapman And
Hall.)—We had believed that the muscular parson had finally disappeared out of fiction, it is so long since he has been met with in a novel ; the old days of Marmion Savage and......
Sunday Echoes In Weekday Hours : A Tale Illustrative Of
the Eccample of Christ. By Mrs. Carey Brock. (Seeleys.)—This is one of a series of tales, no doubt all of them, like this one, excellent in their teaching. Still, we fool......
The Monomaniac Of Love. A Study In The Pathology Of
Character. (Provost and Co.)—We have taken some pains to discover the object of this book, but with limited success ; and the preface, in which the author's design is......
Selected Prose Works Of G. E. Lessing. Translated - From...
by C. E. Beasley, B.A., and Helen Zitnmern. (George Boll and Son.) —This volume eomprises the " Laokoon," the essay on " How the Ancients Represented Death," and "Dramatic......
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