The Mystery Of The Ocean Star.' By W. Clark Russell.
(Chatto and Windus.)—What does the reader expect to find under this title ? Surely, what the present writer expected, a tale of wonder, full of unaccountable events and......
.e100,000 Versus Ghosts. By Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. 2 Vols. (f.
V. White and Co.)—The obvious thing to say about this novel is that it is a " ghost-story and no mistake." We are not terrified with appearances that seem to be supernatural,......
Mark Twain's Library Of Humour. (chatto And Windus.) — "...
Twain " collects into a volume of somewhat more than seven hundred pages, some hundred and sixty specimens of Ameri- can humour. Brief biographical notices of the writers are......
The Sermon Bible : Genesis To Samuel. (hodder And...
—Here we have yet another of the volumes which are intended to make the preacher's work easy. "In the following pages it is attempted," says the compiler in his introduction,......
Uncle Pierce. By Charles Blatherwick. (longmans.)—mr....
of a novelty for the main thread of his plot ; but it is scarcely of sufficient importance to warrant the use that is made of it. Most readers will find the denouement of Uncle......
Frau Withelmine. Translated From The German Of Dr. Julius...
by Harriett F. Powell. (Bell and Son.)—This volume concludes those admirable " Sketches of Berlin Life " which have delighted so many readers under the title of " The Buchholz......
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