... * Miss Marie Corelli's new book is partly narrative and mostly assertive. She has woven a romance around the doctrine of reincarnation as most recently interpreted, and has, at the same time, taken the opportunity to point out to her unhappy fellow-creatures the grievous error of their ways. The hatchet of war is dug up in the first pages of the opening chapter, where that apparently misguided ...

... THE SIN OF II AGAR. In this, her latest novel, the popular author of Comin' Thro' the Rye shows no falling-off from her old skill. The book bustles along at a great pace, and holds the reader's interest enthralled all the time. The publisher, too, has done his part by providing good paper, clear and eminently readable type, and a pretty, simple binding, all of which add substantially to the ...

... . It may be an absurd twist of sentiment, but I found that the performance of ''Little Eyolf'' in the evening was less painful to me than that of Mr. Hurst's piece in the afternoon. This is not said scoffingly, for in some respects ''Woman's World is a decidedly clever work, and in no aspect is it to be despised. The fact is that the two acts in which one sees a woman fooled by a blackguard, ...

... * The term literary sportsman is manifestly ambiguous. It might signify the writer about sport, the lover of sporting books, or merely the man of letters who followed sport as a recreation; but the title, it seems to me, conveys its fullest measure of truth when applied to the hunter who follows a sport that is, or ought to be, in itself literary, whose legitimate quarry is all that may by ...

... .* Mr. R. H. Sherard has just published in book form some sketches which appeared in Pearson's Magazine on The White Slaves of England. It is a moving hook. Written with little attention to literary attractiveness, and couched in generally unemotional language, the book has more force in its plain narrative than reams of declamatory verbiage. Mr. Sherard himself admits that he is a mere ...

... . The essays contributed by Carlyle to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclo paedia, between 1 820 and 1823, have been dug out of their modest, decent obscurity, and given to the world in book form, under the title of Mon taigne and Other Essays. Chiefly Biographical (Gowans). The book is one of the curiosities of literature, no doubt, but why should Carlyle add to the list of these Mr. Crockett has ...

... . Mr. Arthur Lawrence is an Englishman who, having gained the bulk of his experience of the stage in his native country, found his fame in Australia and America, in both of which continents be is well known as a sterling actor. His latest success has been made in the version of The Three Musketeers in which the most popular of actors in America, Mr. E. H. Sothern, has made the hit of his ...

... . The publication of Notes from a Diary, 1851-72 (John Murray) is Sir Mountstuart E. Grant-Duff's contribution to the volumes of Reminiscence on which, when they emanate from those who are them selves interesting, and who have much to say of distinguished and notable people personally known to them, the reading world never fails to bestow a very cordial welcome. The Diary has this ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. THE SPORTSMAN'S BOOK OF BOOKS. The Badminton Library must be rapidly drawing to its close for want of sports and pastimes to write about; but in the two volumes devoted to Big Game Shooting its editors have certainly saved their best wine till the last. These form a veritable sportsman's book of books, for it is safe to say that no book of sport with big game has ever ...

... . Shades of Night has a value, if only that it procured for the critic a second visit to For the Crown, a play of unusual pleasure and profit. The one-act piece introduces a new author, of such promise as to be welcome. He is not, perhaps, a born dramatist, and his making is far from finished but there is sufficient life and brightness in the piece to render his handling of a fanciful theme ...

... . Scene: The Chmereatory at a eimm. They are sitting out the Yon should see my mat-tails fying polka. She is awfully el wee w rte r ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. THE CULT OF THE ILLUSTRATOR* That the illustrations of a modern book may be worthy of being ranked as serious works of art beside the masterpieces of etching and engraving, is an opinion not yet accepted generally. Mr. Pennell, who is nothing if not a vigorous champion of a minority, has, in Modern Illustration, advanced this claim, and proved it in a way that leaves ...