The Little Huguenot. By Max Pemberton. (cassell And Co.)— We
are naturally reminded by Mr. Max Pemberton's theme of the masterly sketches of Mr. Stanley Weyman. But he has nothing like the delicacy of touch which makes Mr. Weyman's......
A Man And His Womankind. By Nora Wynne. (t. Fisher
Unwin.)—This is a very careful, but also, to tell the truth, very wearisome and irritating, study of "family jars." In the Red Lodge we have a mother-in-law and a......
A Little History Of China, And A Chinese Story. By
Alexander Brebner. (T. Fisher ITnwin.)—This is a pleasing combination, in a little volume which does not run to two hundred pages, of fact and fiction, the latter purporting to......
A Popular History Of The Reformation And Of Modern...
By the late G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. (Ward and Lock.)—The late Mr. Bettany wrote on a good many different subjects, and wrote very conscientiously on them all. He was by......
Armorial Families. A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, And...
Directory of some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, and being the first attempt to show which Arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority. Compiled and edited by Arthur......
British Birds. By W. H. Hudson, C.m.z.s. With A Chapter
on Structure and Classification, by Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Hudson has evidently taken great pains with his subject ; and the book is one of the most......
The Wonderful Visit. By H. G. Wells. (dent And Co.)—this
is likely to prove a lively disappointment to admirers of Mr. Wells's former story, "The Time Machine." One need hardly say that it is excellently well written, for that might......