The Second Madame. By M Louise Mclaughlin. (g. P Putnam's
Sons, New York.)—Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of the Elector Palatine, became in 1071 the second wife of Monsieur, younger brother of Louis XIV. Her eldest child died at the......
The Question Of Copyright. By Geo. Haven Putnam. (g. P.
Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Putnam gives us in this volume a second edition, revised and enlarged, of his work, published originally, as he tells us in his preface, in some haste,......
Thomas Carlyle. By Hector C. Macpherson. (oliphant,...
Macpherson gives us a very vigorous and brightly written account of Carlyle's "Latter-Day Sage." The story of his outward life is given with a dis- criminating appreciation, and......
Green - Room Recollections. By Arthur W. A Beckett....
volume, of course, is readable, but it does not contain so many good stories as we expected ; perhaps it is that the stories are not of a kind which it is easy to appropriate.......
The Co - Education Of The Sexes. By Mabel Ilawtrey....
Trench, and Co.)— Miss Hawtrey gives a decided opinion against co-education, and sustains it by argument and by the results of observation. It is a subject of profound......
A Little Volume Of Selections From Whittier (routledge...
may be briefly commended to our readers. Whittier lends himself to selection, for he wrote much that was addressed to temporary wants, and that, the occasion past, is of but......
Handbook Of Arctic Discoveries. By A. W. Greely. (sampson...
Marston, and Co.)—General Greely has taken, it is evident, a vast amount of trouble in "boiling down" the literature of Arctic travel,—" fifty thousand" pages, he says himself,......
The Sand Sea, And Other Stories. By Richard Davey. (rox-
burgh° Pre. ss.)—These stories, seven in number, are good specimens of their kind, readable, clever, varied, and wholesome. The most sombre in character naturally comes from the......
Some Small Volumes Of The Devotional Kind May Be Mentioned
together. All of them have a commendation in the names under which they appear :—Prayers and Promises. By H. C. G. Moule, D.D. (Seeley and Co.) — God's Garden : Sunday Talks......
Tales From The Telling - House. By R. D. Blackmore....
Marston, and Co.)—In one of the four stories included in this volume Mr. Blackmore goes back to the familiar subject of the Doones, and this is, perhaps, the beat of the four. "......
A Crown Of Straw. By Allen Upward. (chatto And Windus.)—
What will happen to a King who becomes a convinced Republican or, we might say, Socialist ? That is the interesting question which the author of this very clever novel puts and......
Ulrich The Ready. By Standish O'grady. (downey And Co.)...
O'Grady has in this historical romance presented a most admirable and vivid picture of Elizabethan Ireland. It is difficult for the most skilful writer to give a clear idea of......
Rome. By Emile Zola. Translated By Ernest Alfred...
and Windus.)—It would not be difficult to expurgate this volume. The idea probably seems a profanity to the translator. Anyhow it has not been done ; in default, we would......
We Have Received A Portfolio Containing Selections From A...
Modern Opera - Houses and Theatres, by Edwin 0. Sachs and Ernest A. E. Woodrow, Vol. I. (B. T. Batsford). The work is to be completed in three volumes, which will contain......
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