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Through Troubled Waters. By Hannah Lynch. (ward, Lock,...

this cannot be called a pleasant tale, it is not without considerable merit. Miss Lynch is Irish and she is patriotic, but her patriotism is not unreasonable or partial. Indeed,......

The Dark House. By George Manville Fenn. (ward And Downey.)

—Mr. Fenn, like the wise man and versatile novelist that he is, swims with the stream. Seeing that the sort of fiction most in demand jest now is of the cheap and sensational......

Celestial Motions: A Handy Book Of Astronomy. By William...

Lynn, B.A., F.R.A.S., formerly of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Third edition. (Edward Stanford.)—The purpose of this little book is to give "a concise digest of the most......

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......

Li/ Lorimer. By Theo Gift. (ward And Downey.)—a Novel Above

the average. The scene of the story is laid for the most part in Buenos Ayres, and the descriptions of life in that part of South America are both instructive and entertaining.......