Enid Lyle. By Bessie Hatton. (chapman And Hall.) — There
are some fine things in this story. Such is the introduction of Philip Palethorpo to his unacknowledged child, Mary Douglas. And there is something effective in the contrast......
Random Recollections Of Woodland, Fen, And Hills. By J. W.
Tutt, F.E.S. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—These recollections of Mr. Tutt are certainly very rambling and often disconnected, but full of observation, mostly of insect life ; and......
Hoist With Her Own Petard. By Reginald Lucas. 3 Vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—The lady who is " hoist " is, as may easily be guessed, an adventuress. She has schemes for marrying a baronet, keeping the baronet's brother for second......
Essays In Historical Chemistry. By T. E. Thorpe....
Co.)—These lectures, some of which were delivered as far back as 1870, make a most interesting volume. Professor Thorpe is a good lecturer ; but those who have not heard him,......
A Hidden Chain. By Dora Russell. 3 Vols. (digby, Long,
and Co.)—We know pretty well what to expect from Dora Russell's pen,—a love-story with all the details, conversations, feelings of everybody reported in the fullest manner. Her......
Comedies Of T. Maccius Plautus. Translated In The...
by Edward H. Sugdon. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)— This is the first volume of a translation which is intended to include all the plays of Plautus, and, Mr. Sugden hopes, the......
Current Literature.
Genius and Art. By Henry Smith. (Iredale, Torquay.)—This pretentious work, whose full title space forbids us quoting, takes the form of a series of letters, after every one of......
The Heir Of Inglesby. By Vieletta." (swan Sonnenschein...
but with no great fault except the want of backbone, The Heir of Inglesby is just readable. The scene is laid in Venice and on the banks of the Thames. A lady who writes about......
Creatures Of Other Days. By The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson.
(Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Hutchinson knows how to invest paleontology with interest for the ordinary reader, though, in- deed, it is a subject which is daily becoming more......
The Magazines.
Teem post of honour in the Nineteenth Century is given to a paper by Mr. St. Loe Strachey on "The Seven Lord Rose. bevies," a mordant sketch of the seven characters in which,......
On The Wallaby. By Guy Boothby. (longmans And Co.)— This
is a readable and amusing traveller's tale, and introduces us to some of the typical characters of the Australian continent. We are taken on a voyage from Adelaide to Colombo,......
Among Men And Horses. By Captain Hayes. (t. Fisher Unwin.)
—In these pages we have the reminiscences of Captain Hayes, whose more technical writings are known everywhere. There is a similarity about the style of all writers who have......
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