Keltic Researches. By E. W. B. Nicholson. (henry Frowde....
Nicholson has expanded what was originally meant as a paper into the dimensions of a small book. The very brief, and one might call congested, explanations and derivative steps......
The Sons Of Cormac, And Tales Of Other Men's Sons.
By Allis Dunbar. With 8 Illustrations by Myra Luxmoore. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—This is a fascinating volume of tales of Irish folk- lore, full of poetry and magic and other......
Drama Of Which The Maid Of Shulam Is The Centre,
'.)oth that which considers it as symbolical, and that which looks upon it simply as a picture of quite earthly passion. Mr. Falconer sums up this literature thus :-" Should the......
Things Seen In Morocco. By A. J. Dawson. (methuen And
Co. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Dawson knows the Moor, especially the Moor who has been brought into contact with, and suffered from, European influences. Yet he has not failed to give us the......
Social Life Under The Stuart,. By E. Godfrey. (grant...
12s. 6d.)—Our author takes the first half of the seventeenth century, and it is, of course, a time apart, even from the Eliza- bethan period. There is much that has a deep and......
Hill Towns Of Italy. By Egerton R. Williams, Jun. With
Illus- trations from Photographs. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.) —This is a very pretty book, but it is better from an artistic than a literary point of view. The......
Paddy Risky. By Andrew Merry. (grant Richards. 6s.)—in...
a slight inclination towards the melodramatic and an occasional coarseness of outline in his realistic descriptions— how often our writers striving for the "real" attain only......
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