In The Key Of Blue, And Other Prose Essays. By
John Addington Symonds. (Elkin Matthews and John Lane.)—The essay which gives a name to this volume is a very ingenious piece of writing by an author whose premature death is a......
Detail How Herbert Williams, An Imaginary Person It Need...
be said, brought an action for injury suffered by him through an accident on a tramcar belonging to the West Middlesex Company, also an imaginary entity. The brief for the......
" Gentleman " Has No Pre Cise Equivalent In Any
foreign language, and that the conception which it denotes is a very interesting one. By way of illustrating this conception, he b as collected a number of extracts from......
The Central Figure Of His Account Of English Literature...
the latter half of the sixteenth century. He begins with his birth in 1552 (circa), and ends with his death in 1509. This occurred in London, whither the poet had fled from......
The Life And Times Of Bishop White. By Julius H.
Ward. (Dodd, Mead, and Co., New York.)—William White was the first Bishop in the English line of the Episcopal Church in America, and the great work of his life is said to have......
Book First Appeared In 1874. It Consists Of Nine Lectures,
never, however, delivered, or intended to be delivered, orally, though, as Dr. Dale remarks, they are written as if this purpose had been in Mr. Rogers' mind. This is the eighth......
Dick Or The Doctor. By Rex Raynor. (digby, Long, And
Co.)— There is plenty of humour in this Australian story, but the characters are over-drawn, and much that otherwise would have amused us is too obviously forced. The......
Literary Blunders. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.s.a. (elliot...
of the" Book-Lovers' Library "has contributed a lively little volume to the series, but one more amusing, per- haps, than instructive. Mr, Wheatley does not tell us how many of......
In The" Golden Treasury " Series. It May Be Hoped
that it will now have a still wider circulation. Cowper has several distinguished rivals in the art of letter-writing, but for humour, for pathos, for spontaneity, and for the......
Berris. By Katherine S. Macquoid. 2 Vols. (ward And...
is not as good work as we expect to get from Mrs. Macquoid. Her heroine is a silly, selfish person, without anything about her to interest, except her beauty, and beauty on......
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