Novels.
THE QUEEN'S QUAIR.* Mn. HEWLETT has kept a long silence, and has broken it with a story which, whether we like it or not, we must acknowledge to be the result of diligent study......
C Ur,rent Literature.
BUCKLE'S "HISTORY OP CIVILISATION." Introduction to the History of Civilisation in England. By Henry Thomas Buckle. New and Revised Edition, with Anno- tations and an......
Municipal Public Works : Their Inception, Construction,...
S. Whinnery. (Macmillan and Co. 69.)—This volume is primarily intended as a handbook for the inexperienced city official and for the urban citizen; and, written as it is from......
The Antipodeans. By Mayne Lindsay. (edward Arnold. 6s.)...
new novel, The Antipodeans, Mr. Mayne Lindsay gives a solution of the problem as to whether heredity or environment is the stronger factor in determining character. His hero,......
Daughters Of Nijo. By Onoto Watanna. (macmillan And Co....
this Japanese story is or is not true to life the present writer has no means of judging. It is, however, full of wistful charm,—though the charm is so elusive that it is im-......
Sophisms Of Free Trade And Popular Political Economy...
Sir John Barnard Byles. A New Edition. With Introduction and Notes by W. S. Lilly, LL.M., and Ch. Stanton Devas, M.A. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)--Byles's editors claim for him......
A Lost Eden. By M. E. Braddon. (hutchinson And Co.
6s.) —Miss Braddon has boldly written a story of about fifty years ago. This is a date which is usually left as a sort of backwater in the annals of fiction, for it is supposed......