Rosalba : A Story Of The Apennines. By F. G.
Wallace-Good- body. (Allen and Co.)—This is a strange book. The story is confused and rather tedious, and it seems now and then to con- found the social condition of Italy......
Ki/groom : A Story Of Ireland. By John A. Steuart.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—Since Mr. Anthony Trollope wrote "The Mac- dermota of Ballycloran," no such pathetic picture of an Irish- man has been drawn as that of Ned Blake in Mr.......
Nutshell Novels. By J. Ashby- Sterry. (hutchinson And...
crowded but trivial volume affords a confirmation of the old saying, " Too much of a good thing is good for nothing." Taken separately, or even two at a time, Mr. Ashby-Sterry's......
The Vicar Of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. With A Preface
by Austin Dobson, and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. (Mac- millan.)—Mr. Austin Dobson's preface appeared as an article in the English Illustrated Magazine. It gives a highly......
Syd By G. Manville Fenn. (methuen And Co.)—mr. Fenn...
his sub-title, " The Boy who would not go to Sea." He works trgto this idea very well. Sydney Belton is not one of those enthA ert :c lads who are bent on a sea-life, and very......
Tales By Leigh Hunt. Now First Collected, With A Prefatory
Memoir, by William Knight, LL.D. (Paterson and Co.)— Leigh Hunt was an accomplished essayist and poet, great in neither department but pleasant in both. Keats, whom he be-......
Ardis Claverton. By Frank R. Stockton E .. Works Oft O Low
and Sam p son Co.)—Extravagance is the life and sour ce ` ` of a kind whic p author of " Rudder Grange," but it is extrava Virgi o n;an iov C era leop . a oer fi c a h to we w......
The Life Of Robert Burns. By John Gibson Lockhart. Revised
edition, with new Notes, Appendices, and Literary Illustrations, by John H. Ingram. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—On the title-page of this volume, the editor has unfortunately quoted a......
Sidney. By Margaret Deland. (longman And Co.)—the Success...
Deland's first notable work, "John Ward, Preacher," has encouraged her in writing on similar lines,—that is to say, in depicting the peace and comfort that are derived from......
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