Paper And Parchment. By Alex. Charles Ewald. (ward And...
Ewald's new volume of " historical sketches " is interesting and readable,—that is a matter of course. But it un- doubtedly suggests book-making more than any previous volume......
Saved By A Looking - Glass. By E. H. Wells. (digby And
Long.) —There is a terrible murder in this short tale, and that no doubt will be a sufficient recommendation of it. But, indeed, it is fairly well told, without attempting to......
Masques And Entertainments. By Ben Jenson. Edited By...
LL.D. (Routledge.)—Mr. Saintsbury, in his " History of Elizabethan Literature," doubts whether Ben Jonson has attained anything like his proper place in English literary......
A South - Sea Lover. By Alfred St. Johnston. (macmillan...
is a very vigorous, brightly coloured picture of life in one of the islands of the Pacific. Christian North, an English sailor, escapes with a Polynesian shipmate from his ship,......
National Health. By B. W. Richardson. (longmans And Co.)...
Richardson deserves thanks for this capital abridgment of Sir Edwin Chadwick's " The Health of Nations." It will serve to remind many of us of the pressing needs of our......
In The Universal Review For This Month, Mr. Sydney Hall
con- tinues his account of the difficulties of an artist in war-time, and his recollections of "Twenty Years Ago" are some of them gruesome and others highly entertaining ; but......
West - Nor' - West. By Jessie M. E. Saxby. (j. Nisbet And...
Mrs. Saxby is disappointing in her attempt to interest us in her trip to the Far West. She tells us nothing that we have not heard before, nothing that is fresh, or put in a new......
American Men Of Letters : William Cullen Bryant. By John
Bige- low. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.) —Bryant, to use Hawthorn's words, was a man of excellent good sense, and a very pleasant man to associate with, but, he......
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