Altaic Hieroglyphics And Hittite Inscriptions. By Captain...
and Son.)—Captain Conder claims to have made a great discovery in the reading of Hittite inscriptions. It is a subject on which we do not pretend to have an opinion, and we......
Betel-nut Island. By John T. Beighton. (religious Tract...
Island is the English equivalent of Pub o Penang; in official language, Prince of Wales's Island ; in common parlance, Penang. This is the place which Mr. Beighton, who has......
Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson. Edited,...
and Notes, by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. (The Clarendon Press.)—This is in every way an excellent edition. Every- thing that Dr. Hill does for Johnson is done as a labour of......
The Sentence. By Augusta Webster. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—mr....
produced here what seems to us, so far as it is possible to judge by merely reading it, a really good drama, a play that would be effective on the stage. The chief character is......
Fortune's Wheel, By K. Viresaliugman, Translated By J....
(Elliot Stock), is one of the most remarkable of recent Hindoo stories, and is written by a high-class Hind(); Telega Pundit of the Government College at Raj ahmandry, who, as......
Story The Author Has Told, And His Doings Are Made
into an interesting little story, mixed up with various experiences of travel, for Marmie' was taken on a tour, and saw the manners and cities of many men. Other chapters have......
The Post Office Of Fifty Years Ago. (cassell And Co.)—of
the many books springing out of the Queen's Jubilee, this, though one of the cheapest and least pretentious, is . by no means one of the least valuable or interesting. After......
Neck Or Nothing. By Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron. (f. V.
White.)— This is a pretty little story of a young gentleman who loses all his money, and a favourite mare which he had intended, much against his will, to sell, and which is......
Fresh Woods And Pastures New. By The Author Of "an
Amateur Angler's Days in Dovedale." (Sampson Low and Co.)—We have to congratulate the author on more than one achievement, first on having written a very charming book, and......
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