Denison's Wife. By Mrs. Alexander Fraser. 2 Vols....
Fraser seems to get weary or ashamed of the baseness of the characters which she introduces into her novel, and ends by changing it into something like virtue. The heroine is a......
Linked At Last. By F. E. Bunnett. (il S. King.)—this
is a quiet, graceful little love-story. Neste, the heroine, has given, or fancies that she has given, her heart, while yet but a young girl, to a bright young lad, with whom she......
Reckoned As One Of The Best Satires Of English Literature,
"Nothing to Wear." We are delighted to meet again so great a favourite, but we candidly say that there is little or nothing else in the volume which even approaches the......
Current Literature.
The British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— The most interesting article in this number is an essay written, as an editorial note informs us, by "an eminent......
The Odyssey Of Home •: Translated Into English Blank Verse.
By William Cullent Bryant. Books (Boston, U.S.: Osgood. London : Triiimer.)—Mr. Bryant has translated the Iliad (a work which the writer of this notice has never seen), and......
The Local Taxation Of Great Britain And Ireland. By R.
B. H. Palgrave. (Murray.)—With the essay here published Mr. Palgrave obtained a prize, with the adjudication of which the Statistical Society was entrusted. After this......