Tempted London : Young Men. (hodder And Stoughton.)—thia...
a reprint of papers which have appeared in the British. Weekly. It abounds with strange, interesting, and, it need hardly be said, often very painful facts. It is not only the......
Filledwith Gold. By Jermie Perrett. (blackie And...
pretty little story. The influence which- his young visitor works on the rather miserly Jersey farmer is well portrayed, though we have some doubts as to its probability. When......
Pierce Gambit : Chess Papers And Problems. By James Pierce,
M.A., and W. Timbrel Pierce. (Triibner and Co.)—That Messrs. Pierce should have dedicated these admirable chess studies to the Poet-Laureate, may seem strange to many, though......
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Life of the Rev. Stephen Hislop. By G. Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. (Murray.)—This is an excellent life of one of the most remarkable and successful of Indian missionaries. Mr. S.......
For Abigail. By Silas K. Hocking. (frederick Warne And Co.)
—Mr. Hocking's pictures of cottage life are always natural and well-drawn. The scene of his last book is for the most part laid in a small Cornish village. The hero of the story......
The Schoolmaster Aril His Son. By K. H. Caspari. (wells
Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The simple annals of the old school- master at Sommerhausen form an exceedingly touching story. The scene is laid in the time of the Thirty Years' War.......
The Church On The Sea. Edited By John Sinclair. (simpkiu
and Marshall.)—The editor's idea has been to supply "a volume of complete religious service for use at sea." He has accordingly gone to clergymen of the Church of England and......
The First Four Numbers Of The Universal Review, Edited By
Harry Quilter (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), are collected into a volume, which, after the notices given in these columns of the Review as it appeared, calls for little more than......