... REVIEWs. MR. G. BERNARD SHAW'S PLAYS.* JULES LEMAITRE has somewhere observed that in selecting his house- keeper as audience Moliere for all time condemns the intellectual pre- tensions of the theatre. The assertion is somewhat too sweeping to be altogether ...

... REVIEWS. OLD STYLE AND NEW.* THERE are books that delight the man as they delighted the boy before the man; and there are books w.vherefrom he strives in vain to recapture that abounding happiness which they gave him in the blessed years du temps jadis ...

... travel they hold the first places, and to these names we would nowlunhesitatingly add that .of the writer of the book under review. This volume deals with an infinite variety of subjects, such as the Great Wall, the Christian. Missions, the Decadence of ...

... REVIEWS. SLANG.A'' THE coming of the third volume of Slang and its Analogues has been long delayed, but the extensiveness of its range and the thorough- ness with which the work is done takes the edge off any impatience one may have felt. We understand ...

... REVIEWS. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTHEH THERrE is much satisfaction to be derived from the growing evidence of the progressive spirit of writers on political economy. The sonewhat hide-bound dogmatism which pervades the more old- las'iioned school of ...

... REVIEWS. SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS.,* PROFESSOR RIEHL invites us to ask once more, What is metaphysics ? and, like Jesting Pilate, leaves us without an answer. In this book, which is a translation of the last volume of a work in which he sets f6rth the ...

... REVIEWS. SIR ARTHFUR BLACKWOOD.*~ Ty, is at least doubtfUl, to ptit Jmild;y; whether it is wise to publish for rreneral circuflat'in a book constructed onl these peculiar lines. SeeonArthurIBlac1k-wood Was an bl raI a first-rate tiublic servaint, a fine ...

... REVIEWS. FROM THE BOER SIDE.* WRITING on August 1, Mr. Hillegas predicted another year or two for the war, if, as he expected, the Boers continued to fight like patriots; if their patriotism failed they would be exterminated as a nation, and none would ...

... REVIEWS. DTTTITFD ASqVPTnIOT .V* HAVING mastered at any rate the rudiments of the art of de6ipherinlg the cuneiform characters, and having a clear idea of the general trend of the history they reveal to us, Mr. Roberton has, apparently, been seized with ...

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... REV'IEWS. N 0 V E L S. MA-. FRANT~ R. S-rocKTon'S Adventures of Caritain H-lrn is as brisk and cenrtarhningai story as wo naive seenl for mionlths. Ile- is fortunate in hiS sub.,cct, for whtpdn ss cafous-hecarted that hie c-an read of inag te witho~ut ...