... * CAPTAIN COLVILE is apparently one of that numerous and rather useful class of Guardsmen who utilize their tolerably frequent leave by exploring all sorts of out-of-the-way countries, not without a view to other things besides sport and adventure. The country in which the expedition recorded in this volume took place is a very out-of-the-way one, though it is not much farther from London than ...

... c INDIA N FAIR Y TALES. * -IN more respects than one this is a very remarkable and interesting little book. Without any knowledge of the circumstances under which it was produced, any one at all familiar with the subject would perceive almost at a glance that he had before him a genuine and unsophisticated con- -tribution to the literature of what is now generally known as folk- lore. This ...

... * TniE value of Professor Jebb's little book must be measured in the inverse ratio to its size. It conveys, indeed, in a small compass a surprising amount of interesting and vivid knowledge in the pleasantest way conceivable. It is at once a book of history, a book of travels, and a book of contemporary social study as applied to Greece. It is needless to say that the historical portion is ...

... KOSSUIH'S MEMOIRS. WHEN the Hungarian statesman Francis Dedk exhorted his countrymen to love their country more than they hated its enemies, and to throw a veil over the past, the winged word went forth through the length and breadth of the land that the coarsest horse-cloth that could be found would not be too thick for the purpose. On the whole, the Hungarian nation in this, as on most ...

... (LA FORZA DEL DESTINO. THE opera written by Signor Verdi expressly for the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburg is, as regards both character and fortune, in striking contrast with that he composed at a later time for the Khedive of Egypt. La Forza del Destino represents to us the Verdi of II Trovatore before he had taken the new departure which astonished many and offended some in ...

... MR'. BUTLER'S edition and translation of Dante's Purgatorio represent a sound piece of scholarship. The combination of a critical version of the text and a literal rendering of it, useful to the beginner alone, may at first sight appear incongruous; but Mr. Butler justly remarks that in our days it seems no longer necessary that the student of a foreign tongue, whether ancient or modern, ...

... M.R. BA YARD TAYLOR'S ESSAYS t THIS posthumous addition to the numerous volumes which Mr Taylor published during his lifetime will not add to his reputati B1 criticisms are not quite up to the level of his poems and books oft As a critic he is sober, conscientious, painstaking, but we fear it mn0t added, commonplace. To some extent the excessively inrute close character of his criticism is a ...