Her Friend. Laurence : A Novel. By Frank Lee Benedict.

(Samuel Tinsley and Co.)—Mr. Benedict can write well, and he ought not, therefore, to write as be does in this novel. It is poor as a novel, and its moral drift is bad. The......

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/Tow I Volunteered for the Cape. By T. E. Fenn. (Samuel Tinsley and Co.)—This is a young Volunteer's diary of nine months spent at the seat of war in South Africa, in active......

Mr. Leslie Stephen On Two Great Novelists.* We Have Read

these criticisms with considerable interest. We cannot agree with Mr. Stephen on some points, we do not think his remarks on others very original, and we believe that in nearly......

Destruction And Reconstruction. By Richard Taylor,...

Confederate Army. (Blackwood.)—This book would, we think, have been better without the last three chapteis. The writer's criticisms on the military operations of the war,......

The Book Of Ruth. By Samuel Cox. (religious Tract Society.

—A popular exposition. This little book,-worthy oven of the ex quisite old poem in prose with which it deals, consists of an introduc- tion, a translation, the exposition......