Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as Lau not been reserved for review in other forms.] Ten Thousand Miles through India and Burma. By Cecil Headlam. (J. M.......
That Extinct Mammal, The Grisette," Is Depicted On The Cover
of this story, but Marge is by no means a grisette. She is, on the contrary, a being so entirely without moral sense that she quite cheerfully and remorselessly becomes a thief......
Marjorie. By Justin Huntly Mccarthy. (harper And...
gives us* a romance of the sea in Marjorie. But although the adventures are sometimes in themselves exciting, the book is not very well knit together, and the general effect is......
Partners Three. By May Crommelin. (john Long. 6s.)—...
begins in a most cheerful manner in a lawyer's office, where the heroine unexpectedly learns that she has been left a fortune of twenty thousand a year. The plot of the book......
Susannah And One Elder. By E.- Maria Albanesi. (methuen And
Co.- 6s.)—We cannot say that we like this book, but it is not so bad as the highly objectionable title would lead one to expect. Susannah makes a very pretty picture, though we......
Ancient Calendars , And Constellations. By The Hon....
(John Murray. 9s. net.)—Miss Plunket's calcula- tions are too complicated to be put in a compendious form before our readers. Her first paper deals with the Accadian Calendar,......
C Urrent Literat Etre.
"THE GREAT INQUIRY." "The Great Inquiry." By H. B. With Illustrations by G. K. C. (Duckworth and Co. ls.)—We have ventured to state, and up to the present time have had no......
A Flame Of Fire. By Joseph Hocking. (cassell And Co.
3s. 6d.) tale of the Inquisition and of the " devildoms of Spain" is not likely to be wanting in excitement. Rupert Hamstead with two companions journey to Spain—the time is......
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