The Divers. By Hume Nisbet. (adam And Charles Black.) —this
is as good a story of its kind as we have seen for some time. The colouring is brilliant—it is a " romance of Oceania "—the action vigorous, the plot well contrived, and the......
The Economic History Of England.* This Book Contains The...
practically unaltered, of two series of lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in 1888 and 1889 by the late Professor Rogers, who died before he could revise them for......
The Captain Of The Mary Rose.' By W. Laird Clowes.
• (Tower Publishing Co.)—This is a " tale of to-morrow,"—i.e., of the next naval war. We find ourselves suddenly at war with France. Our neighbours, better prepared for......
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The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton. (Macmillan and Co.) — The Vita Nuova is the most fitting introduction to the study of Dante, and Mr. Norton,......
The Influence Of Seneca On Elizabethan Tragedy. By J. W.
Cun- liffe, D.Lit. (Macmillan.)—This is the reprint of an essay written as a credential for the Doctor of Literature degree in the Univer- sity of London, and is a distinction......
An Account Of British Flies (" Diptera"). By Fred. V.
Theobald, B.A., F.E.S. Vol. I. (Elliot Stock.)—It is not many years since British entomologists spoke of five out of the seven great orders of insects as "the neglected orders,"......