Book Sales Of 1896. By Temple Scott. (bell And Sons.)—mr.
Scott gives the particulars—i.e., the more important particulars— of some seventy sales, adding general notes as to the character of the sale, and special notes as to the......
Royal Blue - Book, 1897. (belly And Co.)—this Volume Is...
its seventy-fifth year, and continues to fulfil as well as possible its special function of a "fashionable directory." There is an official list, a Parliamentary guide, and......
The Century Magazine, November, 1896—april, 1897....
scarcely necessary to do more than mention the half-yearly volume of this magazine. The Civil War still claims its share, for we have "Why the Confederacy Failed," witl various......
Circumstantial Evidence. By J. H. Swingler. (digby And...
is a sensational story of the meet familiar type, for there is absolutely nothing in it to interest one except the question, who murdered Mr. G. W. Masters, of .Hillside, who......
A Yoke Of Steel. By C. 3. Wells And Godley
Burchett. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The two authors have, we think, achieved a dis- tinct success in the telling of this story. If there is nothing novel about the subject nor......
Memoir Of Hugo Daniel Harper, D.d. By L. V. Lester.
(Long- mans and Co.)—H. D. Harper was educated at Christ's Hospital, distinguished himself at Oxford, became Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, and after presiding over......
After Long Wailing. By Jessie L. Nicholson. 2 Vols. (hurst
and Blackett )—This is a novel of the old-fashioned kind, not unwelcome after the problem literature to which we have been accustomed of late, and made more agreeable outwardly......
At Random. By L. F. Austin. (ward, Lock, And Co.)—the
friend who advised Mr. Austin to write a preface would have done better had he counselled him not to publish at all. These, or some of these, sketches have appeared in the......
A Short History Of Solicitors. By Edmund V. B. Christian.
(Reeves and Turner.)—Mr. Christian is not unfriendly to the profession of which he writes. He thinks that the public has an unreasonable prejudice against them, and that the......
English Lyric Poetry (1500 - 1700). With An Introduction...
Carpenter. (Blackie and Son.)—Even in these days, when the book-market is flooded with volumes of extracts giving the best of the English literature of the past, this excellent......
Lady Turpin. By Henry Herman. (ward, Lock, And Co.)— Mr.
Herman is an expert in mystery-manufacture, and Lady Turpin must be accounted one of his greatest successes. Of course the female criminal is no novelty in fiction, or for that......
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