The Model Of Christian Gay. By Horace Annesley Vachell...
and Son.)—Mr. Vachell describes this story as "A Study of Certain Phases of Life in California." We cannot see that there is anything especially Californian about it. We have......
A Magnificent Young Man. By John Strange Winter. (f. V.
White and Co.)—This is one of the least satizt.:ctory books that have as yet been given to the public by a writer who is obviously doing far too much work. It is quite wholesome......
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The Note-Book of the Bev. Thomas Sally, A.D. 1671-93. Edited by Henry Fishwick. (Printed for the Chetham Society.)—Thomas Solly, belonging to a family of energetic......
Fife, Pictorial And Historical. By A. H. Millar,...
vols. (A. Westwood and Son, Cupar-Fife.)—"The Kingdom of Fife" seems to have a singular fascination for many minds,—a fascination for which St. Andrews, with its historical and......
Sinners Twain. By John Mackie. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—mr....
his new story, which is hardly so powerful as " The Devil's Playground," a romance of "the great lone land." Cer- tainly he contrives to invest the Canadian North-West, to which......
Cherryfield Hall. By Frederic Henry Balfour. (richard...
tale has for its sub-title, " An Episode in the Career of an Adventuress," and for its central figure pre- sents us with the personality of Miss Jockaway. We cannot say that we......
Bibliographica. Part V. (kegan Paul, Trench, And Co.)—the...
which make up the contents of this number will be found highly interesting by the readers to whom they specially appeal. Mr. Maunde Thompson writes about " English Illumin- ated......
My Lifetime. By John Hollingshead. 2 Vols. (sampson Low,...
and Co.)—We must own that the world into which Mr. Hollingshead takes us is not familiar, and that we have but little interest in some of the questions which he raises. We hope......
Grey Roses. By Henry Harland. (john Lane.)—the Stories...
this collection, and all of which, unless we are mistaken, first saw the light in the Yellow Book, are by no means equal in point of merit. The shorter stories, in which Mr.......
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