Alfred The Great.
Alfred the G'eat. By Warwick H. Draper, M.A. (Elliot Stock. 584—This is a sketch—so, indeed, the author designates it—rather than a history. Thus it is specially adapted for its......
Some Books Of The Week.
Muter this heading we notice such Books of the reek as have not been reserred for review in other forms.] Queen Victoria, 1819-1901. By Richard IL Holmes. (Longmans and Co 5s.......
Current Literature.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. History of English, Literature. By E. J. Mathew. (Macmillan and Co. 4a. Cal.)—Mr. Mathew takes a rapid survey of the literary activities and......
Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society. New Series,...
(Longmans and Co. 218.)—The contributions to this volume are as various and as interesting as usual. On the side of social history we have Miss Frances G. Davenport's paper on......
Novels Of The Week.*
nECENT Scandinavian fiction has shown a marked tendency towards the harshest and most uncompromising realism, partly, no doubt, as the result of a literary revulsion against the......