24 APRIL 1897, page 40

The Sun By The Shore. By Florence Warden. (jarrold And

Sons.)—There is no reason why a story should not be written with a plot in which the central motive is kleptomania. But the incidents of The Sun by the Shore make too large a......

Electro-chemistry. By Professor Max Le Blanc. Translated...

Whitney. (Macmillan and Co.)—Professor Max le Blanc, of Leipzig, modestly says his work "may contain some new ideas." It certainly seems to throw a clearer light on the great......

Songs Of A Session. By Moetyn T. Piggott. (a. D.

Innes and Co.) —Here we have something like "Punch's Essence of Parliament." The proceedings of the last Session are described in humorous verse, which, though varying in......

C U Rre Nt Literature.

Tales from the Isles of Greece : being Sketches of Modern Greek Peasant Life. Translated from the Greek of Argyris Ephtaliotis by W. H. D. Rouse. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—These......

Famous Ships And Their Captains.*

THE author of this book has got hold of a capital subject, and it is matter of some regret that he should have made a rather indifferent use of it. The idea of giving a ship a......