Early Printed Books. By E. Gordon Duff. (kagan Paul, Trench,
and Co.)—Mr. Duff's first chapter deals with " Steps towards the Invention." Such steps he finds in the impress of a maker's name found on ancient amphorae and lamps, and such......
Deephaven. By Sarah Orne Jewett. (osgood, Mcllvaine, And...
some twenty years ago, and has been followed by not a few imitations. It is interesting to read it again, especially in the light of the preface which Miss Jewitt has prefixed......
Addresses To Working Men. By S. Reynolds Hole, Dean Of
Rochester. (Edward Arnold.)—These Addresses have the merits, and occasionally the faults, of the lecture and the sermon. Written for the platform and pulpit, the speaker's......
The Days Of His Vanity. By Sydney Grundy. (chatto And
Windus.)—The author of this story is a well-known playwright, who, since its original publication, has served a twenty-years apprenticeship to the art of dramatic plot-weaving.......
A Journalist's Note - Book. By Frank Frankport Moore....
Co.)—Mr. Moore has collected a number of anecdotes, of which we might give the description which Martial gives of his epigram, but with the omission of the bona guczedam. It is......
Aspects Of Modern Oxford. By A Mere Don. (seeley.) — The...
Don" (who might as well have put his name on the title- page of this volume as he subscribed it to the articles of the Portfolio) discourses very pleasantly and smartly about......
Marie Charlotte Anne De Corday. By Mary Jeaffreson....
Long.)—This "Centenary Essay" is a sufficiently fair estimate of a remarkable woman. Now and then the style admits of an improvement, as when, for instance, we read that the......
In The Series Of " Bell's Classical Translations" (g. Bell
and Sons) we have two volumes of a proposed translation of Virgil. These are The Bucolics and The Georgics, translated by Hamilton Bryce, LL.D. Both appear to be carefully done,......
A Short History Of The Renaissance In Italy. Taken From
the Work of John Addington Symonds, by Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Pearson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The character and, we may say, the value of this book are sufficiently......
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