How To Write Fiction. (bellairs And Co.)—the Writer Tells Us
that he was asked by a lady to give her some hints about writing short stories, that he did what he could, though without much hope of doing any good, but that he achieved the......
The Judge Of The Four Corners. By G. B. Burgin.
(A. D. Ines and Co.)—This is a novel with a good deal in it that reminds ns of Bret Harte, a good deal that reminds us of Dickens, and a fair remainder of original matter and......
The Life Of Nancy. By Sarah Orne Jewett. (longmans And
Co.) — The Life of Nancy is the title-story of a pleasant little volution of tales of provincial life in America. " Nancy " and " The War- Debt" are quite the best things in the......
The Lost Pibroch, And Other Sheiling Stories. By Neil...
(W. Blackwood and Sons.)—These stories are doubtless faithful representations of the semi-savage life and character of the Gaelic district to which they belong. But they would......
Current Literature.
Tales of South Africa. By H. A. Bryden. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—These admirably told tales give a better conception of the life of the wanderer in South Africa than any......
The Oxford Movement. By William Wakeling. (swan Sonnen-...
Co.)—Mr. Wakeling—who died before the publication of this volume—has collected a great mass of recollections—his own and other people's—about men who took a part in the Oxford......