A Modern Marriage. By The Marquise Clara Lanza. (w. Heine-
mann.)—Why a "modern marriage" P The story seems to us a very old one, though the circumstances are modern. Substitute a minor poet for Paris, and a pretty woman who wants to......
Golden Lives The Story Of A Woman's Courage. By Frederick
Wicks. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The saerifice which the heroine inakee in Golden Lives is revolting, to say the least of it ; but though the writer hangs his plot on it, it is the......
Manual Of Assaying : Heinemann's Scientific Handbooks, By...
Brown and A. B. Griffiths. (Heinernann.)—This is certainly a practical book, for, besides the laboratory assays and analysis, there are some of the more expeditious assays which......
A Week In A Wherry On The Norfolk Broads. By
" Blue Peter." (The Leadenhall Press.)—Why, when a writer records his adven- tures in a boat, does ho feel bound to be funny ? It is conceivable —with difficulty—that the......
Novels And Tales.—hadasseh. By E. Lenty Collins. (t....
Collins has conceived the somewhat ambi- tious idea of telling again the story of Esther. He has taken much pains with his tale, but has scarcely been successful. In trying, it......
London Of The Past. By J. Ashton Ainscough. (elliot Stock.)—
Phis little book has considerable merits, which, moreover, are not .commonly to be found in guide-books of the class to whieh it belongs. It is crisply written, it does not give......
Impressions Of A Tenderfoot. By Mrs. Algernon St. Maur....
Murray.)—Mrs. St. Maur and her party left Liverpool on May 3rd, by a Canadian steamer, and returned to England aid New York, at the end of the year. They went, says the author......
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