A Singer's Wife. By Fanny M. D. Murfree. (cassell And
Co.)— This is a story of the reigning American fashion, in which character is elaborately studied, and incident, so to speak, tabooed. Felicia Raymond marries a professional......
Where Town And Country Meet. By Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. (long-
mans.)—This is a singularly well-written story. The plot is well contrived. There is poetical character about the justice which we find worked out in the denouement, and yet......
His Angel. By Henry Herman. (ward, Lock, And Co.)—this Is
a spirited story. Daniel Kershaw, a millionaire from the American West, comes into relation with a young man who is coming from the same country eastward in the hopes of making......
An Introduction To The Johannine Writings. By Paton J....
D.D. (Nisbet and Co.)—We cannot pretend to criticise in the space at our command Dr. Gloag's learned work; but we do not hesitate to commend it to the consideration of......
Jedwood Justice. By Albany De Fonblanque. 3 Vole....
Sons.)—This novel has decided merits. It is written through- out with force ; it has a carefully constructed plot, and ends with a denouement which the reader, even though......
John Kenneth Mackenzie. By Mrs. Bryson. (hodder And...
a native of Yarmouth, of mingled Highland and Welsh parentage, spent some thirteen years as a medical missionary in China. At first he was stationed at Han- Kow, but afterwards......
Volume Of Remarkable Sermons. The Preacher Takes The Life Of
Abraham, and in a spirit very different from the critical manner which we are accustomed to find in his countrymen, treats it with a view to edification. The plainness and......
Some French And Spanish Men Of Genius. Sketches By Joseph
Forster. (Ellis and Elvey.)—Mr. Forster gives an account of twelve Frenchmen, beginning with Marivaux, a comedian who flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century,......
Drawn Blank. By Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. 3 Vols. (f. V.
White and Co.)—This is, in part, a sporting story, with its plot compli- cated by one of those curious confusions of identity which are, happily, more common in fiction than in......
Uneven Ground. By Florence Severne. 3 Vole. (david...
is a love-story, which has, one might say, for its chief raison d'ttre a description of life in Rome, a scene where Miss Severne naturally finds herself at home. The story has......
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