The Magazines.
THE political articles in the magazines for May are all, of course, devoted to the Home-rule Bill. The best of them are Mr. Lecky's eloquent and thoughtful attack on it in the......
The Library Review. Edited By Kineton Parkes. (hutchinson...
have the first volume of this "Record of Current Literature." The criticisms are signed, a practice for which much is to be said ; but which somehow does not—in this country, at......
The Life Of Miguel De Cervantes. By Jan Fitzamurice Kelly.
(Chapman and Hall.)—This Life of Cervantes is very pleasant as well as instructive reading. While there is no educated person, we suppose, who is not familiar with Cervantes'......
The One Good Guest. By L. B. Walford. (longmans.)—this Is
not Mrs. Walford's best work, but it has a good deal of humour in it, and could not have been written by any author who had not a groat gift for sprightly and skilful......
Current Literature.
considerable ; but it is not, on the whole, ability put to its best use. There are too many characters, and not always well- outlined characters ; and the society sketches are......
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