The Queen's Shilling : A Soldier's Story. By Captain Arthur
Griffiths. (H. S. King.)—The reader is led to expect the story of a private sol- dier, who does receive, we understand, some coin of mystical power, which is called the "Queen's......
Tennyson: His Life And Works. By Jephson H. Smith. (james
Blackwood.)—It is one of the penalties of greatness to be made the subject of contemporary biography. Mr. Smith scarcely pretends to give anything like criticism, but he gossips......
The Persians Of Teschylus. Translated Into English Verse....
Gurney, M.A. (Bell and Deighton.)—We cannot congratulate Mr. Gurney upon having accomplished a successful translation. Beyond a respectable knowledge of the text, he does not......
"while The Boy' Waits." By J. Mortimer Granville...
Granville modestly hopoi that what was " worth writing may perhaps be worth reading." These essays were written to fill up a vacant space- in the columns of a newspaper, and......
Under A Tropical Sky. By John Amphlett. (sampson Low And
Co.)—Mr. Amphlett paid visits of some length to Barba.does, Demerara, and Jamaica,:and caught passing glimpses of various other West Indian islands. He spent somewhat less than......
The Restoration Of Paths To Dwell In ; Essays On
the Re-editing and Interpretation of the Old Testament Scriptures. By the Rev. B. Street, B.A. (Strahan.)—We might well dispute the truth of Mr. Street's first sentence :—" It......
Old Times In Ireland. By Lieutenant-colonel The Ron. C. S.
Vereker, M.A., F.G.S. (Chapman and Hall.)—The only reasonable way in which the production of such a book as Old Times in Ireland' is to be accounted for, is on the supposition......
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