Scotland And Scotsmen In The Eighteenth Century.*
LET us say at once that this is the best book which has appeared on the Scotland of the past—a Scotland not too remote or barbarous to be now uninteresting—since the late Dr.......
Dominic Penteme, By Godfrey Buret:lett. (vizetelly And...
nothing much to be said about Mr. Barchett's one-volume story, except that it is very melodramatic, very sensational, wildly improbable, and in all other respects decidedly......
Young Mistley. 2 Vols. (it. Bentley And Son.)—this...
which is evidently a first attempt in fiction, is not altogether a satisfying performance; but its defects are in the main those of inexperience, and it is by no means deficient......
Current Literature.
A. False Start. By Hawley Smart. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.) —Every one knows Mr. Hawley Smart's novels well enough to vouch for their readableness, and for a fair amount of......
Archbishop Laud : A Study. By A. C. Benson. (began
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—It was a happy thought of an inmate of Lambeth Palace to give us this study of one of its most famous occupants in the past. There have been not a few......
A Siege Baby. By John Strange Winter. 2 Vols. (f.
V. White and Co.)—This latest work from the pen of the lady who, under a masculine pseudonym, has given us a number of very lively stories of military life, is not a novel, but......
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