Princess Adelaide. By Emily Sarah Holt. (j. F. Shaw And
Co.) —This fairly well written little historical romance takes us back to the times of the struggle between Simon de Montfort and Prince Edward, afterwards Edward I. The horrors......
Friends And Foes. By E. Everett Green. (j. F. Shaw
and Co.) —This is one of the simplest and least ambitious efforts of a writer who has lately made successful inroads into the realms of serious fiction. In truth, it is almost a......
The Oxford University Press Has Sent Us Two Miniature...
of which the smallest is not too big for a capacious waistcoat-pocket ; while the larger one would hardly be found at all obtrusively evident in an ordinary morning-coat-pocket.......
Love's Music, And Other Poems. By Annie Matheson....
Marston, and Co.)—This "handful of lyrics " is appropriately named, though the poem which gives its title to the volume is not the most conspicuous of the contents. It is music......
Rogues' Island ; O R, The Pirate Lair. By W
. C. Metcalfe. (J. F. Shaw.) —There is plenty of the humour of the brine—of the Smollett, however, rather than of the Ma.rryat or the Clark Russell type— in this delightful......
Adventures Of A Perambulator. By Mrs. Adams-acton. (rout-...
assured that in this pleasant volume we have "the true details of a family history," and the statement is per- fectly credible. The book is a vely natural account of the doings......
Tive Writing In This Story Of A Boy And A
girl and an impossible but penitent father. Cherry and Peter, and Tom's evil genius, Joe Sproule, are admirably sketched. Most childish readers will think that Peter receives......
Little Frolic (john F. Shaw And Co.), Is A Really
wonderful mix- ture of story and moral, prose and poetry, lighted up by those large illustrations which little children are supposed especially to affect. It is intended......
The Journal Of Philology, Vol. Xxil, No. 43. (macmillan An
Co., London ; Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge.)—Mr. Platt's remarks on the legend of Iphigeneia are learned and ingenious, though we are unable to recognise any connection......
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