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Nature's Fairyland. By Il W. S. Worsley-benison. (elliot...

takes us with him on numerous rambles, sometimes botanising, sometimes exploring on the seashore, where, in that most interesting of all pools, a " half-tide pool," we find such......

Astrophel And Stella. Edited From The Folio Of 1598 By

Alfred Pollard. (David Stott.)—This is a scholarly little volume, edited with great care. Mr. Pollard's Introduction will not, perhaps, win the assent of all students ; but it......

Verestchagin : Painter, Soldier, Traveller. Translated By...

M.A. (Bentley).—These autobiographical sketches of Vassili Verestchagin will not raise the fame of the great artist as a penman. The conviction sooner or later forces itself......

Among The Old Scotch Minstrels. By William Mcdowell....

Edinburgh.)—This little volume is as satisfactory as it is unpretentious. While acknowledging—or, at all events, not questioning—the value of the criticism, literary as well as......

— Mr. Miller Is Not An Unknown Nor, We Believe,

an unsuccessful author; but we cannot praise his present literary venture. Hi s style is a little slip-shod and commonplace; and while he professes to avoid the information......

As The Evolution Hypothesis Is A Dynamic Theory, It Demands

a principle which must unify all things, and account for all the phases of known phenomena ; and that thought and emotion, conscience and will, therefore have to take their......

A Story Of Active Service In Foreign Leads. By Surgeon -...

A. G. Young. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The years 1857-81, inclusive, seen to have been truly " Active Service," seen in South Africa, India, and China. To India, indeed, there were......