The Disintegrator. By Arthur Morgan And Charles R. Brown....
and Long.)—This " romance of modern science " can hardly be called scientific. Mr. Foden Flint learns some curious secrets from an Eastern "occulist "—surely "occultist" is the......
Rex, The Black Sheep. By M. E. Hall. (digby, Long,
and Co.)— We have the character of one of those tiresome individuals known as " black sheep " very well set forth in the personality of "Rex Sutherland." He is not viciously......
In And About Bohemia. By C. J. Wills. (griffith, Ferran,
and Co.)—Amusing and witty, abounding in humorous situations and Bohemian characters, these short stories make capital reading for a few minutes. The fate of these products of a......
Won In Spite Of Him. By The Rev. C. Houghton.
(Digby, Long, and Co.) — This is a very poor sort of " dreadful," better bound, to be sure, than the ordinary "penny dreadful," but of equal merit in every other respect, full......
A Scamper Through Spain And Tangier. By Margaret Thomas....
and Co.)—Miss Margaret Thomas, with a lady com- panion, seems to have scampered through Spain, from St. Jean de Luz to Tangier, without much inconvenience or hardship. She used......
Makers Of Modern Thought. By David Nasmyth, Q.c. Vol. I.
(G. Philip and Son.)—This volume contains twenty-three " sketches of the lives and writings of the following emancipators of the European mind," the following being twenty-three......
Cavalier And Courtier Lyrics. With Introduction By W. H....
and Notes by E. Sherwood Smith. (Walter Scott.)—This volume is not by any means the least attractive of its series,— " The Canterbury Poets." Some thirty poets are put under......
The Wisdom And Wit Of Blessed Thomas More. Collected And
edited by the Rev. T. C. Bridgett. (Burns and Oates )—There is much wit and wisdom in the writings of Sir Thomas More, and Father Bridgett has not failed to find and bring......
The Stone, Bronze, And Iron Ages. By J. Hunter - Duvar....
Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Hunter-Duvar knows his facts, and has plenty to say about the life early man led, and the teachings of archaeology. This is a subject that admits of......
The Chetwynds Of Ingestre. By H. E. Chetwynd-stapleton....
Adam de Chetwynd appears at the end of the twelfth century as the lord of eleven manors, which at the beginning had belonged to Turold de Vesley. From this per- sonage Mr.......
A Ride Across Iceland. By The Rev, W. T. Mccormick.
(Digby, Long, and Co.)—The three hundred miles' ride of Mr. McCormick was unique of its kind ; but the absence of the remotest vestige of literary form has completely obscured......
The Risen Dead. By Florence Marryat. (spencer, Blackett,...
Risen Dead is not up to the level of Florence Marryat's previous novels. Unpleasant as some of them are, their writer possesses a certain power of describing the lower passions......
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