Current Literature.
An Old and Middle English Reader : on the Basis of Professor Julius Zupitect's Alt- and Mittelenglisches Obungsbuch. By George MacLean, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—The character......
Middle Temple Table-talk. By W. G. Thorpe, F.s.a....
and Co.)-'-Mr. Stevenson, in his dedication of " Catriona," states that it is the fate of sequels to disappoint the expecta- tions of those who have waited for them, and though......
The Magazines.
THE half-crown magazines contain this month a good many instructive papers, though few of the most readable kind. Mrs. Webb's essay in the Nineteenth Century, for instance, on "......
Orchard Damerel. By Alan St. Aubyn. 3 Vols. (hurst And
Blackett.)—We must not doubt, we suppose, that there may have been a couple as silly and as ignorant of life as Robert Lyon, rector of Stoke Demerol, and Joan, née Benson, his......
The Mystery Of Dandy Court. By Fergus Hume. (jerrold And
Son.)—This is a tale of an ordinary kind, but told, as might be expected from the author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," with more than ordinary cleverness. The plot turns......
Thoughts And Reflections On Modern Society. By A....
Paul and Co.)—This book, we are gravely assured at the outset, is the result of thirty years' observation, experience, and reflection. We took it up, accordingly, with becoming......
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