Current Literature.
Chronicles of No - Man's - Land. By Frederick Boyle. (Ghetto and Windus.)—Mr. Boyle's sketches of travel and of the very varied forms of life with which a large experience has......
I Regular Pickle. By H. W. Nesfield. (g. Redway.)—the Career
of a ne'er-do-weel who mixes himself up with a number of objection- able people, and does a number of objectionable things, is not a pleasing subject to most readers, though......
Lord Tennyson : A Biographical Sketch. By Henry Jennings....
and Windus.)—Mr. Jennings begins by quoting the poet's fine lines written "After reading the Life and Letters of a Deceased Poet." And he observes in his book the limitations......
To Be False And Contemptible Is A Subject Which, Though
scarcely agreeable, has a certain fascination about it. Novelists are certainly fond of it, and readers, it may be presumed, find an interest in it. 3Iiss Pirkis treats it, in......
We Have Received The First Volume (containing The Issue For
the half-year ending May) of Book-Lore : a Magazine devoted to Old- Time Literature. (Elliot Stock.)—" It is," to quote from the preface, " a large and increasing class that......
Studies In Low-german And High-german Literature. By M....
(Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)—German literature, and especially that known as Low German, is so closely akin to English literature that anything relating thereto can hardly fail......
Not Drowned. By Antony Bathe. (chapman And Hall.)—two Of The
personages of this story go through an experience which may be described in the words "not drowned." Margaret Kirkward, being left in poverty, determines to go to the Cape. She......
Two Englishmen. By An American. (griffith, Ferran, And...
a very slight thread of narrative is strung a considerable quantity of talk about the United States. Frank Rossmore goes out to the States to seek his fortune,—which he does not......
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