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Land And Sea Pieces : Poems. By Arthur E. J.

Legge. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—There are two poets at work within the boards of Mr. Legge's slim volume. One is a minor bard, with a gift of dainty versification on the......

Mr. Montgomerie : Pool. By Garrett Mill. (w. Blackwood And

Sons. 6s.)—This is the tale of a man who makes a slip in his youth and is cast off by his kinsfolk. His cousin, a prosperous business man, refuses to restore to him his mother's......

The Success Which Has Attended Miss Hawtrey's Experiment...

interesting light on the composition of historical romances. The scene is laid in Paris in the year 1400, but we are very little troubled with the chronicles of cloak and sword,......

The Byways Of Braithe. By Frances Powell. (harper And...

6s.)—While many of the books which come before us are so distinctively American that they could not possibly have been written in any other country in the world, the reader has......

Joshua Newings; Or, The Love Bacillus. By G. F. Bradby.

(Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Bradby has written a most amusing farce, which we can cordially recommend for holiday reading. It has the true quality of farce in that, while......