... read the brief sketch of Hampden in John Forster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth. We have all read, moreover, the volumes of Gardiner's History, which dwell in detail uoon many incidents of the Civil War in which John Hampden played a part. 1 cannot find ...

... heard of Lord Russell of Killowen, whose talents were so widely admired while he lived. Not so many on this side of the Irish Channel have heard of his brother, the Rev. Matthew Russell, who has for many years resided in Dublin. Father Russell has a charming ...

... Cinderella for a very long time. She sings capably and fluently, dances like a sylph, and acts with the daintiest comedy. Mr. John Humphries, as the Baroness, is an actor of humour and resource. He gives a performance full of feminine touches. It is so excellent ...

... Maynard, is accused of the crime and arrested. This all takes place in the first few chapters of A While Lie, by G. Russell Beardmore (John Long 6s.), and the rest of the book is devoted to Doris Maynard's trial and the various unavailing attempts to prove ...

... Hardy. HP he new book is entitled INelson's Hardy: his Life, Letters, and Friends. By A. M. Broadley and R. G. Bartelot. John Murray.) Possessed in an unusual degree of the quality of serendipity Mr. Broadley has found a number of new Hardy letters ...

... most valuable achievement. M ost of us owe our first introduction to Dante to Gary's translation. I once heard Mr. James Russell Lowell declare that he learnt Italian by reading The Divine Comedy in the original. Not many of us could attain to that. Few ...

... writers has never felt over kindly to Moore. It has counted him an English worldling as seen in the pages of his friend Lord John Russell's biography, and it has complained that his poetry lacks the Celtic glamour that Mangan and other Irish poets have had ...

... very considerably to our pleasure. Hobhouse, as all the world knows, was a leading Whig statesman of his day. He was in Lord Russell's Cabinet he was made Lord Broughton although the barony became extinct with him; he was the author of many books. Praed's ...

... in cloth at seven- pence. But the writers of whom they have an abundance of books in their catalogue include the author of John Halifax Gentleman, Charles Kings- lev, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Henry Wood, and quite a number of living authors, many of whose ...

... and Mr. J. Cuthbert Haddon. 'Phefirmof Smith and Elder has given us some interesting books this season. Mr. George W. E. Russell, who one is apt to forget is a Right Honourable, has written a memoir on Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the genial humorist of the House ...