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A New English Dictionary. Parts VI.-VII. Edited by James A. H. Murray. (Clarendon Press.)—Pozt VI. contains "do— Consigner," and Part VII. carries on the work as far as......
Like A Sister. By Madeline Crichton. (digby, Long, And Co.)
—There is a good deal of Ireland, a considerable amount of China, and possibly a trifle too much of blackguardism of the " deep- dyed " sort in this interesting but too......
Dante's Pilgrim's Progress. By Emilia Russell Gurney....
Stock.)—This is a selection from the " Commedia," but a selec- tion made in a special way and for a special purpose, not giving passages of special literary or historical......
Telegraph-wires And Other Messages. By E. Amy Northey....
Son.)—This is an attempt, by moans of allegory and the personification of certain moral and religious ideas, to bring familiar truths home to the minds of the simple and im-......
The Story Of Andrew Fairfax. By Joseph Hocking. (ward, Lock,
and Co.)—Andrew Fairfax is a tale written with some clever- ness, and with excellent intentions. Andrew is a young man who goes down to the old home of his father, works as a......
Faneswood. By Henry Salon Wheler. (digby, Long, And Co.)...
is a strange, ill-compacted, but yet not dull or uninterest- ing story of life in college and country-house, by an author who, although he is almost too obviously a tyro, is......
Sweetheart Glen. By William Tirebuck. (longmans.)—this Is...
of a boy's life in Wales. Mr. Tirebuck observes closely, and can describe. Nor is he unacquainted, it is clear, with Welsh manners. But there is a suggestion throughout of......
Children Of Chance. By Herbert Lloyd.' (william Andrews...
Hull.)—The fundamental idea of this story is not a novel one, but it is very well worked out. An able man, "con- centred all on self" however, deserts, in the interests of......
A Ruthless Avenger. By Mrs. Conney. (hutchinson.)—thie At...
be conceded to Mrs. Conney, that, although her new book is in three volumes, and although she occasionally writes too splendidly, she is never tedious. This negative success, on......
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