Queen Slab. By Lord James Douglas. (richard Bentley And...
is in most respects a very common-place novel. The plot turns upon such worn-oat incidents as the return from abroad to claim a family estate of a brother long believed to be......
Poems In Prose. By Ivan Tonrgueneff. (cnpplin And Co.,...
U.S.)—These "poems in prose," a title, the translator tells us in his preface, "half suggested" by the author, are sometimes idylls, some- times satires, but almost always......
The Red Cardinal. By Frances Elliot. 2 Vols. (f. V.
White and Co.)—This story somewhat reminds one of " The Castle of Otranto," only there the mysteries are explained, the book being really a bur- lesqae, whereas here there is......
In The Light. Brief Memorials Of Elizabeth Phebe Seeley. By
her Sister. With a Preface, by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—This little memoir is published for the British Syrian Schools and Bible Mission. It was to this......
Fasti Apostolici. By W. H. Anderdon, S.j. (kegan Paul,...
and Co.) . —This book may be conveniently described by its second title, "A Chronological Survey of the Years between the Ascension of our Lord and the Martyrdom of SS. Peter......
• Heart Salvage By Sea And Land. By Mrs. Cooper
Katharine Saunders. 3 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—Of the stories in these volumes (three longer and three shorter ones) "The Silver Line" is, we think, the beat, because it is......
Princess Napraxine. By " Ouida." 3 Vols. (ghetto And...
—" °aide's" dramatis personm are of the types which must by this time have become sufficiently familiar to her readers. There is a Russian prince, enormously wealthy, in......
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