A Vicar's Wife. By Evelyn Dickinson. (methuen And Co.)—...
the clergy have not yet been restored to the favour of the novelist, for the Vicar in the story of The Vicar's Wife does scant credit to his cloth. A good deal of cleverness has......
Us With Much Simple Pathos, Not Without An Occasional Stroke
of humour, the story of his childhood, during which his first impulse to Art seems to have come,—suggested by the "painter Renny," as he calls him, a local decorator. This......
Rich; Or, The Becidiviste : A Romance Of Australian Life.
By David Falk. (Trischler and Co.)—Recidiviste, the second title of Rick, is the word colloquially used to signify a French convict deported to the penal settlement of......
The Dramatic Essays Of Charles Lamb. With A Preface By
Brander Matthews. (Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Matthews has a good appreciation of Lamb. and expresses it neatly and well. We do not see so much similarity as he seems to do between......
Palms And Pearls : Or, Scenes In Ceylon. By Alan
Waters. (Bentley and Sons.)—Mr. Waters begins with a practical chapter, which the intending visitor to Ceylon may study with profit. Not the least useful bit of advice that he......
On The Heights Of Himalay. By A. Van Der Naillen.
(Gay and Bird, London ; John W. Lowell Company, New York.)—In the publisher's preface to the second edition of On the Heights of Himalay, we are told that this theosophic novel......
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