29 APRIL 1882, page 23

A Compendium Of Italian History. Translated From The...

Giovanni Bosco, and completed to the present time by J. D. Morell, LL.D. (Longmans.)—It is not easy to see why Dr. Morell has taken the trouble to translate this very......

"american Men Of Letters :" Noah Webster. By Horace E.

Scudder. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a volume of a series which is under the editorship of Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, and which promises well. Webster certainly achieved a......

Genji Monegatari. Translated By Suyematz Kenchio....

perhaps, as well that Western readers should have the -opportunity of seeing what the translator, doubtless with truth, de- scribes as "the most celebrated of the classical......

Poetry. — From America We Have Three Small Books, The...

which, Songs and Lyrics, by Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (Osgood and Co.), notwithstanding a few little affectations, belonging to what one might call the Sunflower Superstition, is......

My Old Playground Revisited. By Benjamin E. Kennedy....

Blackett.)—This is an account of a ten weeks' tour in Italy. The writer and his wife started on the last day of February, and re- turned to London on May 9th, and tells the......