There Is One Eminently Popular Paper In The New Number
of The Law Quarterly Review, — Mr. Edward Manson's "Scenes in Court from the Year Books." This shows how in the days of the Plantagenets, the King's Justices were in the habit......
The Entr'acte Annual For 1894 Is, Like Its Predecessors, An
agreeable collection of light papers, dealing with actors, actresses, and acting, profusely illustrated by Mr. Alfred Bryan in his usual vein of broad but not unpleasing......
The Little Squire. By Mrs. Henry De La Pasture. (cassell
and Co.)—This is a somewhat commonplace story which yet contrives to be readable, thanks chiefly to the lifelike sketch of the little heroine. A lonely, imaginative,......
The Little Dowager. By Mrs. Sale Barker. (routledge.)—a...
tells the story of his own and his little niece's adven- tures with gipsies, exploding chemicals, boats, and a fussy aunt. It is just the narrative that a child likes to listen......
Facing Fearful Odds. By Gordon Stables. (shaw And Co.)— The
period of which our author writes is the War of Indepen- dence in America. We begin with a pleasing and somewhat ideal account of life in the backwoods, and finish up with some......
In The " Dryburgh Edition" Of The " Waverley Novels"
(A. and C. Black) we have Peveril of the Peak, with ten illustrations, drawn by Stanley Berkeley ; in the "Border Edition" of the same (J. C. Nimmo), Quentin Durward, in two......
The December Number Of Colonia, Which Is The Magazine Of
the Colonial College, llollesley Bay, Suffolk, resembles other students' periodicals in giving "Athletic " information and "College Notes," and even in having a "poet's corner."......
St. Nicholas. Conducted By Mary Mapes Dodge. (t. Fisher...
"Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks" con- tinues to retain its position as one of the best, if not the very best, of children's magazines. The table of contents exhibits as......
Ghaxels From. The Divan Of Hafiz. Done Into English By
Justin Huntly McCarthy. (David Nutt.)—Mr. J. H. McCarthy has translated these selections from the great Persian poet into prose. From one point of view he has done well ; we......
Marianela. Translated From The Spanish Of B. Perez Galdos By
Mary Wharton. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—The theme of Marianelot, by the Spanish writer Perez Galdos, is the faithful affection of a poor, uneducated orphan girl for a rich young......
What Happened At Morwyn, By M. A. Hozer (digby, Long,
and Co.), tells of a brave and charming young lady who undertook the Herculean task of paying off her deceased father's debts, amount- ing to scores of thousands of pounds,-(for......
The British Almanac And Companion, 1894. (stationers'...
almanac appears again, with its customary variety of information, political, social, and other, astronomical tables, lists of official personages, and other matters such as one......
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