Lydia.* The First Half Of This Single Volume Gives Little
promise of the power and insight of the concluding chapters. The author is, we imagine, a woman, and a woman who has hardly seen enough of life to judge the disproportion......
Voltaire. By Francis Espinasse. (walter Scott.) — Mr....
not by any means a victim to the has biographica. He is just—it might almost be said, severely just—to the subject of his memoir. One cannot help feeling that Voltaire was a man......
Essays. By Sir Morell Mackenzie. (sampson Low, Marston,...
first essay in this volume bears the title of " Specialism ;" the second is a rejoinder made to Dr. Donkin. Sir Morell's contention is "the inevitable disappearance of the......
Instead Of A Book. Culled From The Writings Of Benjamin
R. Tucker. (R. N. Tucker, New York.)—Mr. Tucker is the editor and publisher of a journal called Liberty. Here we have extracts from it, interesting because they constitute the......
Current Literature.
The English Peasant. By Richard Heath. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —Mr. Heath has collected here a number of papers published at various times during the last twenty odd years. We do not......
The Sportsman And Tourist's Guide To Scotland. Edited By J.
Watson-Lyall. (118 Pall Mall.)—This is the " twenty-first year of publication," and we welcome an old acquaintance. It has, we observe, a new feature, which should be of the......
By A Himalayan Lake, By "an Idle Exile." (ward And
Downey.)—This is a story of Anglo-Indian life, and is of the usual type,—usual, we mean, where fighting does not come into the plot. Hetty Mainwaring, engaged to Jem......
Bourne's Handy Assurance Manual, 1891 Edited By H, S....
(H. S. Carpenter.)—This periodical has been fre- quently noticed before in these columns, and may be again com- mended to all readers interested in the subject. The most......
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