The Theatrical World Of 1895. By William Archer. (walter...
Archer has collected his theatrical criticisms of the year in this volume, the third, we observe, of its kind. They mean, of course, much more to those who saw the plays......
Archbishop Laud's Commemoration, 1895. Edited By William...
(A. Southey and Co.)—So much has been written lately about Archbishop Laud that it is not necessary to do more than briefly describe the contents of this volume. The editor......
The Great Galcoito : Folly Or Sainttinessy From The Spanish
of Jose Echegaray. By Hannah Lynch. (John Lane.)—Miss Lynch laments that the Spanish dramatist lacks the "humorous de- pravity" of the French play-writers, and has "no......
A Text-book Of The History Of Architecture. By A. D.
P. Hamlin. (Longmans and Co.)—Tho good arrangement of this book makes the mass of information it contains upon the architec- ture, both of Europe and Asia, easily available.......
The Dial: An Occasional Publication. (hacon And...
of blank paper we come upon a lithograph by Mr. C. H. Shannon, called "Delia." There is a fine largeness of form and treatment in this drawing which is a great contrast to the......
We Have Before Us Two Volumes Of Yet Another Series
of fiction, the Zeit-Geist Library (Hutchinson and Co.), viz., The Zeit- Geist, by L. Dougall, and Chiffon's Marriage, by "Gyp." Tho first is a clever study, but of characters......
Chief Ancient Philosophies—platonism. Tv Thomas B....
will be found of varying interest to the general reader. Part of it will be more or less over his head, as, for example, the chapters on " Plato's Doctrine of Being" and "......
Some Annals Of An Italian Village. By Madame Galetti....
Cox.)—We have here a curious picture of Italian life, not without a certain photographic minuteness in some of its parts. Tito, selfish and indolent, content to be the great man......
The Midsummer Of Italian Art. By Frank Preston Stearns. (g.
P. Putnam's Sons.) — This book gives a good general view of the art and spirit of the Renaissance, and will prove useful to those who have not before taken a general survey of......
Current Literature.
Disturbing Elements. By Mabel C. Birchenough. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Disturbing Elements is not likely to cause any mental excitement in the mind of the reader, but for all......
The Artist (constable And Co.), For May, Has Two Interesting
technical articles,—one by Mr. Staadage upon the chemistry of oil in painting, the other by Mra:sa. Lea Merritt and Professor Roberts-Austen, on the manipulation of the "......
Martin Verlost. By Marguerite Bryant. (a. And C. Black.)— We
have not been able to discern the connecting thread which runs, or should ran, through this story. The scone is laid first in a Pacific island, where some one finds a magic......
The Magazines.
BY much the most interesting and important article in the magazines of June is Mr. Seymour Fort's upon " The True Motive and Reason of Dr. Jameson's Raid," in the Nineteenth......
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