The Quarterly Review. July. (john Murray.)—this Number...
article, conceived in a very hopeful spirit, on the condition and prospects of the Dominion of Canada, and it ends, not, we conceive, without a purpose, with a review of Dr.......
By Leafy Ways : Brief Studies From The Book Of
Nature. By Francis A. Knight. Illustrated by E. T. Compton. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Knight's " Brief Studies," reprinted from the Daily News, are perhaps better fitted for newspaper......
A Girl's Ride In Iceland. By Ethel B. Harley (mrs.
Alec Tweedie). (Griffith and Farran.)—This brightly written little volume will amuse the reader, and may perhaps induce him to under- take a similar excursion. Iceland is not......
Following Quotation From Goethe :—" A Novel Is A Subjective
epopee, wherein the author begs permission to treat the world after his fashion : the question therefore is, has he a fashion ? the rest will attend to itself." We suppose it......
Saved As By Fire. By Eleanor Mary Marsh. 3 Vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—This novel appears to be the first work of its author, and is even more aggressively amateurish than the majority of first novels. Miss Marsh's style is......
Chopin, And Other Musical Essays. By Henry T. Finck. (t•
Fisher Unwin.)—It gives us pleasure to notice this new and in- teresting book by Mr. Henry T. Pluck. He is an ardent admirer of Chopin, and writes with the view of explaining,......
Severed Ties. By Mrs. Henry Wylde. 3 Vols. (f. V.
White and 'Co.)—Mrs. Henry Wylde has, we believe, achieved a certain amount of success in the world of music ; and with such success it would be well for her to be content, for......
A Summer In A Dutch Country - House. By Mrs. Arthur...
(Kegan Paul.)—The attractive title-page of this volume is followed by a preface, in which the reader learns that to the holiest principles should be added the sense of daily......
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