The Married Women's Property Act (1882) : What It Does,
and What it Does Not Do. (Ward and Lock.)—Here we have a review of the state of the law relating to the status of married women as it was up to January 1st, 1883, and the......
My Beautiful Daughter, By Percy B. St. John (j. And
R. Maxwell), is fall to overflowing of old-fashioned love-affairs and villainies, and is written in crisp paragraphs, on an average not more than two or three lines in length.......
The Mississippi, By Francis Vinton Greene (triibner), Is...
eighth of a series of volumes descriptive of the campaigns of the American Civil War. So far as maps, statistics, and actual narra- tion of military movements are concerned, it......
Melodramatic Vigour, Strong Situations, And Ejaculations...
and German, are the leading features of On Dangerous Ground, by Edith Stewart Drewry. (F. V. White.)—Lady Glen- Luna, the would-be murderess and social panther of the story,......
Weighed And Wanting. By George Macdonald, Ll.d. (s. Low.)...
is probably the poorest and least pleasant story Dr. Macdonald has ever published. The Raymounts are a disagreeable family ; there is not a truly manly or womanly character in......
The Blackest Of Lies, By Albany De Fonblanque...
a very unpleasant story about very unpleasant people, such as a hysterical clergyman and a Jesuit Father who is given to thieving and poisoning, and a lady who drinks to excess......
American Humourists. By The Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.a. (chatty
and Windus.)—Mr. Haweis's book is disappointing. In the first place, the style is unpleasing, even provoking. The writer arranges what he has to say in little snippets of......
Eve Lester. By Alice Mangold Diehl. (bentley.)—the Girl...
her name to this novel shows force in her vigorous efforts to overcome the obstacles that a bad education has placed between her and a life of true womanhood, and her portrait......
William I., German Emperor, And King Of Prussia. By W.
Beatty-Kingston. (Routledge.)—Mr. Kingston was special corre- spondent to the Daily Telegraph during the Franco-German war, and its representative at Berlin during the seven......
Nature Studies. By Grant Allen, Andrew Wilson, Thomas...
Clodd, and Richard A. Proctor. (Wyman and Son.)—This is another pleasant volume added to the "Knowledge" library. Out of the twenty-four essays which it contains there is not......
Sweet Inisfail. By Richard Dowling. (tinsley Brothers.)—...
one of Mr. Dowling's best stories ; indeed, it has every appearance of having been written in a hurry. Other- wise, nearly one-half of a volume would not have been devoted to a......
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