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The Lore Adventures Of Al-mansur. Translated From The...

by Omar-el-Aziz. Edited by Archibald Clavering Gunton. (G. Routledge and Sons.)—We need not inquire too particularly into the nationality of " Omar-el-Aziz," or of his original.......

Old English Fairy - Tales. Collected By S. Baring Gould.

(Methuen and Co.) —There is very good reading in these tales, as indeed there is sure to be in whatever Mr. Baring-Gould is pleased to give us. It is true that we are never......

Catullus. Edited By Arthur Palmer, Litt.d. (macmillan And...

a volume of the " Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts," of which we have already noticed Mr. W. Leaf's "Iliad" and Mr. Page's " 2Eneid." The latter scholars has also......

The Romance Of Judge Ketchum. By Horace Annesley Vachell....

Bentley and Son.)—This story is a great advance in some im- portant respects on that from the same pen which we noticed some time ago. That a Judge in a Western town should turn......

Churchwardens' Accounts Of St. Edmund And St. Thomas...

By Henry James Fowle Swayne. With Introduction by Amy M. Straton. (Bennett Bros., Salisbury.)—The late Mr. Swayne expended a vast amount of labour on the deciphering of the......

The West Indies And The Spanish Main. By James Rodway.

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is one of the " Story of the Nations" series. Of what nation—the question has been suggested by more than one of the later volumes bearing this title—is......

Good Beading About Many Books. Mostly By Their Authors. (t.

Fisher Unwin.)—This is the " second year " of this publica- tion. The first volume did not, we think, come our way. Of this, the second, we may say that it distinctly interests......

Essays. By Arthur Christopher Benson. (w. Heinemann.)—...

these thirteen essays have appeared in various periodicals ; that on "William Blake " is now published for the first time. The characteristic excellences of Mr. Benson's work,......

Across An Ulster Bog. By M. Hamilton. (w. Heinemann.)—it...

have been better, we think, in view of the situation of affairs in Ireland, if Mrs. or Miss Hamilton had not chosen for the plot of her story this shameful business of sin and......