Ishmael Loxes. By Richard Pardoe. (s.p.c.k.)—this "story...
how a workman in the Black Country, getting himself mixed up with Socialists, Anarchists, or Nihilists—it is not quite clear which, but they are busy with making bombs— falls......
The Age Of The Condottieri. By Oscar Browning, M.a....
—Mr. Oscar Browning has followed up his valuable book, " Guelphs and Ghibellines," with another work which will take a not less important place of its own. It is a " Short......
The World's Own Book; Or, The Treasury Of Ti Kempis.
By Percy Fitzgerald. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Percy Fitzgerald begins with an account of the first edition of the " Imitatio Christi " (printed by Gunther Zainer at Augsburg), and......
The Carved Stones Of Islay. By Robert C. Graham. (james
MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—This is the book of an expert, and it would probably be difficult, if not impossible, to find another expert qualified to criticise it. We must be......
A Batch Of Short Tales, Published By The S.p.c.k., May
be mentioned together. Gertrude's Lover, by Christabel R. Coleridge, is a tale of that lower middle-class life which Miss Coleridge has a special gift for drawing. Rupert......
The Pirate Slaver. By Harry Collingwood. (s.p.c.k.)—harry...
happy knack of telling a sea-story with all the innumerable details that are so fascinating to a lover of ships and the sea, and add to the pleasure of those who do not know a......
A Salt - Water Hero. By The Rev. Edward Augustus Rand....
" hero " is a New England lad, who goes to sea in a whaler and distinguishes himself by various brave deeds, and especially by refusing to drink the liquor which a wicked......
Nadya : A Tale Of The Steppes. By Oliver M.
Norris. (R.T.S.)— A pretty story is Nadya, with some attractive local colouring of Russian village life and the persecution of the Stundists. Part of the story is laid in a......
The German Universities. By Friedrich Paulsen. Authorised...
Delavan Perry. (Macmillan and Co.)—. This will be found an interesting and valuable work, not only for the information which it gives, but also for the contrasts which it......
Current Literature.
The Land of the Muskeg. By H. Somers Somerset. (W. Heine- mann.)—A " muskeg " is, as we understand from Mr. Somerset, a green bog of a very treacherous kind, such as is not......
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