Tales Of Ancient India. By E. C. Cox. (thacker And
Co., Bombay.)—These are some beautiful Hindoo mythological legends, taken from the primary sources of Hindoo inspiration, a s nd are given a rich and flowing style.......
The Shadow Of The Raggexlstone, By Charles F. Grindrod...
Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of the twelfth century, The Shadow of the Raggexlstone, by Charles F. Grindrod (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of......
William Of Germany. By Archibald Forbes. (cassell And...
writing a succinct biography of the great German Emperor, Mr. Forbes has endeavoured to give an equal prominence to the soldier and the monarch, hardly an easy task, for though......
The Mystery Of The Ocean Star.' By W. Clark Russell.
(Chatto and Windus.)—What does the reader expect to find under this title ? Surely, what the present writer expected, a tale of wonder, full of unaccountable events and......
Life Of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. By James Sime. (walter...
Sime is well known as an accomplished student of German literature, although too level-headed and too Scotch to quite lose his head in raptures over it. His Life of Goethe, con-......
The Arabs In Central Africa And At Lake Nyassa. By
James Stevenson. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Mr. Stevenson's pamphlet is timely. We are just now anxiously waiting the result of the effort to stem the tide of Arab invasion,......
The Works Of George Peels. Edited By A. H. Bullen,
B.A. 2 vols. (John C. Nimmo.)—It may be doubted whether Peelo's works were worth reprinting. Some of them certainly have very slender merit indeed. The " Arraignment of Paris"......
A Ride Through Syria, By Edward Abram (abram And Sons),
covers familiar ground, describing for us once more Joppa, Mount Oarmel, Tiberias, Damascus (which, it seems, "must for ever ramain the mother-city of the world"), Baalbec,......
A More Excellent Way, By Constance Howell (sonnenschein),...
much of a novel with a purpose that it can hardly be considered a novel at all. It is really an exposition of present-day Free- thought and Socialism, although it is nominally a......
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