The Moving Finger. By Mary Gaunt. (methuen And Co.)— In
this volume we have seven sketches of Australian life, all of them powerful, and all of them painted in those gloomy colours which the literary artists of the day so strangely......
A Princess Of The Gutter. By L. T. Meade. (wells
Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)—Joan Prinsep inherits a fortune from her uncle, with a charge from the dying man to use it better than he has done. She finds that a large part of it......
The Coming Of Theodora. By Eliza Orne White. (smith And
Elder.)—Theodora is one of those admirable people, often, it is ead to say, as mischievous as they are admirable, who have a passion for setting everybody and everything right.......
Figure - Drawing And Composition. By Richard G. Hatton....
Ration's subject is the human figure. He divides it, after preliminary observations, as "Aim and Method" and "The Figure as a Whole," into "The Head and Neck," "The Trunk," "The......
A Selection Of Passages From Plato For English Readers. From
the translation by B. Jowett, MA. Edited, with introductions, by M. J. Knight. 2 vols. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Knight undertook this task of selection at the request of the late......
The Story Of The Sea. Edited By "q?' (cassell And
Co.)— Mr. Quiller-Conch has been assisted in his task of telling The Story of the Sea by various writers who are favourably known to the public by their valuable contributions......
Au Men Are Liars. By Joseph Hocking. (ward, Lock, Bowden,
and Co.)—The characters with which Mr. Hooking constitutes his drama are of the most conventional kind. The cynic, the selfish aristocrat, the woman of the world, the devotee of......
Dialogues Of The Day. Edited By Oswald Crawford. (chapman...
Hall.)—Mr. Crawfurd has enlisted the services of a number of clever writers, and employed them on what we cannot but think a somewhat thankless task. He seems to have had a......
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