The Shifting Of The Fire. By Ford H. Ilueffer. (fisher
Unwin.) —The heroine marries an old millionaire because her lover having become suddenly poor, she is forbidden to marry him, and she thinks she may got the old man's money. It......
A Tangled Web. By Lady Lindsay. 2 Vols. (a.. And
C. Black.) —Lady Grisell, heiress of a Scotch earl, grows weary of her Northern home, and answers the advertisement of "a lady of title" who wishes to chaperone "a young......
March Hares And Their Friends. By" T. A." (dean.)—this Is
a volume of extravagances of pen and pencil which are mere really amusing than such things often are. The artist fairly rises to his subject. There is no arrike-pensde of sense......
Short Stalks, Or Hunting Camps, North, South, East, And...
By E. N. Buxton. (Stanford.)—Mr. Buxton's book is one of the best descriptive books of big-game hunting in many lands we have ever read. He has tried for most of the trophies of......
A Rose Of A Hundred Leaves. By Amelia E. Barr.
(J. Clark and Co.)—This is one of our author's strongest and sweetest stories, dealing in well-defined characters, but made charming by the delicacy and insight into love's......
The Doctor Of The Xuliet.' By Harry Collingwood. (methuen...
Co.)—This is a sea-story, told with all the spirit which Mr. Collingwood knows how to throw into a tale. The materials are familiar enough. In this respect, indeed, there can......
Elsie Elleston, By May Edwood. (thacker, Spink, And Co.,...
W. Thacker and Co., London.)—Miss Edwood wishes the public to know that "the life of the English in India is, in the main, as pure and good as it is elsewhere," and in this......
Imogen ; Or, Only Eighteen. By Mrs. Molesworth. (w. And
R. Chambers.)—This is not a very pleasant story ; but it is well in- tended and well worked out, and may, not impossibly, do good. A plot is laid, half in malice, half in......
• Cloister Life In The Days Of Cceur De Lion.
By Dr. Spence, Dean of Gloucester. (Isbieter and Co.)—When we have praised Mr. Railton's beautiful architectural illustrations, we have praised all that can be praised in this......
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