A Whirl Asunder. By Gertrude Atherton. (cassell And Co.)—...
Belmont is a Californian heiress, a woman who, to use Miss Gertrude Atherton's expressive phrase, takes "her will between her teeth." Her will is to win away a certain English.......
Pinches Of Salt. By F. M. Allen. (downey And Co.)—these
nine Irish sketches, if not all of the best quality, have yet so ex- cellent an average of merit that the volume which contains them may be accorded almost unqualified praise.......
Hyde Park, From Domesday Book To Date. By John Ashton.
(Downey and Co.)—There is not much to be said about the early history of Hyde Park. It was a hunting ground for Royal sportsmen till quite recent times. In 1768 two Princes of......
The History Of Greece. By Adolf Holm. (macmillan And Co.)—
This volume, the second out of the four to which it is proposed to limit the work, contains the history of the culminating period of Hellenic greatness, the fifth century. We......
Facsimiles Of Royal, Historical, And Literary Autographs,...
thirty facsimiles cover a wide range of times and persons. From Catharine of Arragon they come down to Browning, and suggest a curious variety of interests. Here are some of the......
A Vis;t To Bashan And Argob. By Major Algernon Heber-percy.
(Religious Tract Society.)—Some years ago much interest was excited in England by descriptions of remains of primitive archi- tecture in Bashan. The cities of the giants had......
Leeures And Essays. By Henry Nettleship. Second Series....
H. Haverfield, M.A. With Portrait and Memoir. (Clarendon Press.)—This volume contains abundant proof of the varied intellectual activities of Professor Nettleship. The subjects......
Ten Years In A Portsmouth Slum. By Robert R. Doffing.
(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This book stands outside criticism. When we have said that there is nothing in the way of telling that mars or hinders the profound impression that......
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