Lewis Rand. By Mary Johnston. (a. Constable And Co. 68.)—
Miss Johnston has fully grasped the soundness of the principle that an historical novel, if it is to be worth reading, ought to be long. It is impossible to convey a picture of......
Princess Penniless. By S. R. Crockett. (hodder And...
can speak with almost unmixed praise of Mr. Crockett's new story as far as concerns what is by much the greater portion of it. Hubert Salveson has a hard time. He has had a......
The Story Of Esther. By Maud Oxenden. (w. Blackwood And
Sons. 6s.-)—The faults of this story are more those of manner than of matter, the writer having acquired a habit of sententiously addressing her readers, using for the purpose......
Novels.
THE HERMIT AND 1 111k, WILD WOMAN.* Mits. WHARTON'S indisputable talent perhaps reached its high.- water mark in her previous collection of short stories, The Descent of Man.......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading les notice such Books of the week as here not been reserved for review in other forms.] • Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man. By James Morgan. (Macmillan......
Sir John Field, K.c.b., Soldier And Evangelist. By His Son,
Claud Field. (R.T.S. 5s. not.)—This is a volume which we feel constrained to notice very briefly. It is not that we aro sceptical about the genuineness of the story told, or......
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