... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. ISABELLE, By the Author of An M.D.'s Tale, etc. CHAPTER I. Fair encounter Of two iuoht rare affections Hoavena rain grace On that which breeds betweon 'em 1-- The Tempest. FEW places look more lonely than a country house in an evening in November. The road to it is strewn with leaves and they and the trees above, from which they have just fallen, are drenched and ...

... LADY VALERIA, by A. Moberly (Bentley and Son), is a work full of promise. Awkwardly constructed, wasting enough material for several well-arranged novels, and with an altogether over crowded canvas, ...

... fiobineon's Jfricnb BY W. E. NORRIS, Author of MJl'e. de Mersac, Thirlby Hall, &-Y. ...

... B. M. CROKER has the advantage of new ground for the scene of A Bird of Passage (3 vols.: Sampson Low and Co.). Not that the Andaman Islands, in themselves, appear to be an exceptionally interesting ...

... Ii^d£%5fl THE author of The Romance of War contrives to keep abreast of British warfare, great and small. In Playing With Fire (3 vols.: Ward and Downey) Mr. James Grant carries his gallant young ...

... ATHLOS; OR, THE STORY OF A LIFE, by M. A. Curtois (2 vols.: Remington and Co.), is based upon a very decided motive --the effect upon men's lives and, natures of good seed scattered about freely. Th ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. A NEW FLYING DUTCHMAN. BY W. W. Fenn. Author of Blind Man s Holiday, fc. eyo. You see the bank of laurels down there at the bottom of the lawn? That is the boundary of our grounds. Through that shrubbery there is a path leading to a door in the palings which opens upon a bridle way skirting the line of railroad. From a gate in the hedge immediately opposite we ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. A STRING- OP TRIPLES. By Montf. A TRIFLE! Why, life is mainly made up of trifles, said Loftus Egerton as he stretched out his hand to take an apple from the basket-shaped blue china dish of pippins in front of him. It was a glorious September afternoon in the days when George the Second was King by the gra^e of God and the apathy of the English Jacobites. The ...

... lte: JtSjioton) of-pbcittua By II. RIDER HAGGARD Author 0/ King Solomon's Alines Dawn 44 The Witch's Ilcad &C, XXVIII. OVER THE MOUNTAIN THE next thing I recollect is a feeling of the most dreadf ...

... 11. U. MR. OSWALD CRAWFURD'S Beyond the Seas (I vol: Chap man and Hall) is a novel to linger over with enjoyment; and to this quality must be set down the fact that our notice of it appears some wha ...

... Her name was Harriet Dredge, Gubble. Her name was Harriet Dredge, Gubble. Oh, dear Then it is she I said. All the way from Porto Kico. Think of it 'What a journey at this time of year.! 'Gubble, you're a fool. Yes, sir, I am. I should not have been here if I hadn't been a fool. I know it, Mr. Dredge, too well. Haven't you an idea? What's to be done when-- when Harriet comes I I should ...

... . From The Brooklyn Eagle. A late United States Consul at one of the English ports, who is now a private resident of New York, relates the following interesting story:-- On my last voyage home from England, some three years ago, in one of the Cunard steamers, I noticed one morning, after a few days out of port, a young man hobbling about on the upper deck, supported by crutches and seeming ...