... - I Western Windows, and other Poems. By John James Platt. (New York: Hurd and Houghton. Cambridge: Riverside.) As many of these poems have been already published and have received some favourable notices, both in England and America, it seems proper to say that we should have .regarded them more hopefully if they had reached us in smaller samples. The entire volume has a very trivial and ...

... THE RIFLED ORDNANCE OF THE BRITISH SER VICE. TnE Royal Gun Factory has followed the example of the other manufac- turing departments, and added one more volume to the admirable series of departmental works which during the past few years have been published by authority. We have had two treatises on ammunition from the Royal Laboratory, a work on the construction of carriages, &c., from the ...

... SIR EDWARD'S WIFE.F ALTHOUGHm The Story of Sir Edward's Wife belongs to that peculiar species of fiction the interest of which' threatens to culminate in the Divorce Court, the author has dealt with his plot in such a fashion as to avoid the reproach of seeking to attract his readers by illustrations of the lofty and passionate emotions so often employed to justify poor married humanity ...

... A WOXMIALiN'S FAITH. IN saying that this book is written in a womanly manner and essentially- from a woman's point of view we by no means wish to detract from its merits, which are really not inconsiderable. The plot is fairly constructed, and has about it sufficient mystery to sustain interest even apart from the7 working out of the individual characters. The opening scene is laid in, Rome, ...

... i' OLRIG GRANGE'. A BROTHIER and sister, twins, the last descendants of a family settled from i time immemorial as the chief gentry of a small trading port in Scotland-- the fortunes of the house impaired by unlucky ventures-the father lost when the twins were children-the mother, to whom they owed their bringing-up, later. The orphans are devoted to one another, and both of them of fine ...

... LA VIE PARISIENNVE. iiLA V] L PARISI1NNY is a less popular kind of life now than it was in the days of the last Paris Exposition, when France was looked upon as the Jrmost influential country and Paris the most delightful capital in the whole wcrld. It has since been discovered that Paris was nothing more than the tavern of Europe ( le cabaret de l'Europe); and the authors of La Vie ...