Woman, The Mystery. By Henry Herman. (ward, Lock, And...
is not difficult to compress a great amount of lively incident into the space of a single volume if you make your tale "a story of three revolutions." Henne, Mr. Herman's......
Bruno The Conscript, By Marie Hutcheson. (hutchinson And...
a young Italian who is just on the point of gratify- ing his strong artistic tastes by entering the studio of a sculptor, when his career is pitilessly stopped by the......
A Desert Bride. By Hume Nisbet. (f. V. White And
Co,)-- Ronald MacIvor and Jack Bangles resolve to find the "Peacock Throne" of Shah Jehan, which Nadir Shah is said to have carried off from Delhi. Their adventures begin with a......
Bed And White Heather. By Robert Buchanan. (chatto And...
is a volume of "North Country Tales and Ballads," four of each. The first tale, "A Highland Princess," is published for the first time. No one can complain of its being wanting......
The Burmese Empire A Hundred Rears Ago. As Described By
Father Sangermano. With Introduction and Notes by John Jardine. (Archibald Constable.)—Vincentius Sangermano, an Italian priest, was sent by the Society de propaganda fide to......
A Truthful Woman In Southern California. By Kate Sanborn....
Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a guide-book of a superior and literary kind. We do not mean that it gives details of distances, roads, conveyances, hotels, and the like, but......
A Banished Beauty. By John Bickerdyke. (blackwood And...
which Mr. Bickerdyke gives us in his introductory chapter is attractive,—"a story of love and sport in the Outer Hebrides." We cannot say that it is not carried out. Love there......
The State And Its Children. By Gertrude M. Tuckwell....
—Miss Tuckwell begins her preface thus :—" Among the social questions with which the nation has to deal, there is none, it seems to me, so important as the question of the......
Candidate's Speeches. By " Ono Who Has Never Been A Candi-
date." (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The writer of these speeches tells us that they have never been delivered, but that as he has spoken on the various subjects with which they......
The Cartoons Of 8i. Mark. By Robert P. Horton. (j.
Clarke and Co.)—The word "Cartoon" in the title of this volume is an expression, not very happy, we venture to think, of the picturesque character of St. Mark's Gospel,......
Current Literature.
The Rajah,'s Second Wife. By Head= Hill. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—Thia is a distinctly powerful story. The Rajah is an educated Hindoo, who has come over to England to read for......
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