A Family Circle, Finishing With One Which Is, Perhaps, The
most tragical of all, and hardly suited, we might imagine, to the audience, told by the vicar. Altogether, the stories are not exactly what we should expect from the title.—In......
Riverside Letters. By George D. Leslie, Ra. (macmillan...
volume is a continuation of the earlier "Letters to Marco," Marco being the writer's fellow-artist, Mr. Marks. " I am sorry," writes Mr. Leslie, "to say that, besides my own, I......
Zig - Zag Travels. By Charlotte Roper. (t. Fisher...
some courage in provoking the comparison which the title of Miss Roper's book suggests. This will scarcely become a classic, but it may be described as a simple, unaffected, and......
Current Literature.
Mars. By Percival Lowell. (Longmans and Co.)—We inserted an article in the Spectator of last week on the facts presented in Mr. Lowell's book, and cannot follow out the......
Dolly Madison. By Maud Wilder Goodwin. (john Murray.)—...
is one of the series of "Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times in America." It covers a period including both the War of Independence and the war of 1812-14. Of the former,......
Recent Novels.*
WE may be excused for not knowing whether amid the three- score novels that have issued from Miss Braddon's pen in the last thirty-five years she has ever set foot on the path......