Highrigg : A True Tale. By P. A. Haddow. (foulis,
Edin- burgh. 6s.)—At one time novels of Scotch peasant life ran in the ,groove of amiable sentiment, and village worthies were depicted as only a little lower than the angels.......
The Quarterlies.
The Edinburgh Review is very full of historical articles. There is a long analysis of the English Reformation, a paper on Spenser in Ireland, one on the fall of the Directory,......
Pam Is Not A Political Novel, As The Once Familiar
nickname might lead one to suppose. One of the principal characters is a politician; but politics play an altogether insignificant part in the story, the interest of which is......
The Loves Of Miss Anne. By S. R. Crockett. (james
Clarke and Co. 6s.)—It has become a platitude to say that every new book of Mr. Crockett shows his characteristic merits and characteristic faults ; and yet it is almost all......
The Blue Moon. By Laurence Housman. (john Murray. 68.) —mr.
Housman has written a very graceful collection of fairy. tales, which deserve to be classed as fiction, since in each case the conception is elaborated into a proper story and......
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