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Select Essays Of Sainte - Beuve. Translated By A. J....

Arnold.)—Every one knows, or ought to know, what manner of critic Sainte-Beuve was. It is needless to attempt, at this time, any estimate of him. All that we have to do is to......

We Must Be Content With A Brief Mention Of Two

books, both of which show, in their different lines, a great amount of special knowledge. These are, Greek Dress, by Marion Millington Evans (Macmillan), and Ancient Ships, by......

Into The Highways And Hedges. By F. F. Montresor....

and Co.)—This is a strange story, but, for all its strangeness, most distinctly effective. Margaret Deane is " converted " by a revivalist preacher, as we suppose he would be......

Days Of A Soldier's Life. (chapman And Hall.)—this Volume...

of letters written by the late Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker, during a period of between twenty and thirty years' active service. Nearly half is occupied with letters from the......

21.mygd,a/a. By Mrs. Edmonds. (g. Bell And Sons.)—this...

the Greek Revolution" is, it seemed to us as we read, a little confused. An author may complicate a plot as much as he pleases, and prepare as many surprises as may be possible,......

The Hero Of Esthonia ; And Other Studies In Esthonian

Literature. By W. F. Kirby. 2 vols. (John C. Nimmo.)—Mr. W. F. Kirby tells us that in the course of his study of the Finnish epic " Kalevala," he was led to examine the......

The Universities And The Social Problem. Edited By John M.

Knapp. (Rivington and Percival.)—The range of this most interesting little volume goes beyond what is indicated by the word "Universities." Various other missions and clubs are......

Her Fiction, Are Not By Any Means, In Our Judgment,

admirable or edifying. It is curious to compare with them what we now find to be her true ideal,—that is to say, the nearest realisation that the circumstances of human life......

Current Literatvre.

Two Suffolk Friends. By Francis Hindes Groome. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This little volume is a reprint, with additions, of two lively papers from Blackwood's Magazine, and the......