Sir William Alexander, The First Earl Of Stirling, Was An

in- dustrious poet. He wrote four tragedies of a profound dull- ness ; and not satisfied with this, turned his undoubted lack of poetic talent to the composition of a moral poem......

This Reviewer Opened Italian Pleasure Gardens, By Miss...

Nichols (Williams and Norgate, 42s.), at the page where it is stated that the best garden at Portofino is that of the Villa Carnarvon. Near by, at Paraggi, exists one of the......

Some Books Of The Week

COMMANDER ELLSBERG tells the story, covering some nine months, of the salving of the Submarine ' S. 51,' of the U.S. Navy, in On the Bottom (Constable. 10s.). She was run down......

We Seem To Be In A New Age Of Elegant

Extracts, and pub- lishers often provide us with a magnificent conspectus of some form of literature. Great Essays of all Nations, edited by Mr. F. H. Pritchard (Harrap, 8s.......

A Diary Of St. Helena (allen And Unwin, 6s.), Edited

by Sir Arthur Wilson, is a reprint of the celebrated diaries of Lady Malcolm, giving the conversations of Napoleon with Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in 1816 and 1817, on the island of......

The Facsimile Of A Letter From Nelson To Lady Hamilton

is the most interesting feature in The Sea Microcosm. This little book has been published by the Microcosm Office, City Chambers, Leeds (10s.), and the proceeds from its sale......

A Scientific Divine Who Did Much Good Work In His

day is worthily commemorated in the memoir of Stephen Hales, D.D., F.R.S., by Dr. A. E. Clark-Kennedy, of the London Hospital and Fellow of Hales's old college, Corpus Christi,......

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