An Address Delivered By Way Of Inaugural Lecture....
1867. By the Rev. William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History. (Oxford : J. Parker.)—We are glad of the opportunity of reading a revised edition of the lecture,......
World Almost A Century Too Late. There Is A Good
deal in it about sub- terranean passages and robbers, but we had not the patience to pluck out the heart of its mystery, and it is too prosy to reward any greater perseverance.......
Our Children: Sketched From Nature In Pencil And Verse....
and Son.)—An unpretending little publication, the sketches having been taken for family amusement, and having gradually enlarged their circle of appreciative admirers. If it is......
The Rob Roy On The Baltic. By J. Macgregor, M.a.
(Low, Son, and; Marston.)—There is not the same freshness in Mr. Macgregor's account of his second cruise as in his first little book, which we reviewed at length. And yet we......
Medical Students Of The Period. By R. Temple Wright, M.d.
(Black- wood.)—With the exception of some parts, which deal with a painful if I not repulsive subject, this little book is worthy of much praise and general reading. Its sketch......
Little Folks. Twenty Pictures. By Oscar Pletsch. (f....
Co.)—We noticed some similar pictures the other day, and it seems to us that too short a time has elapsed since then, for such exactly iden- tical faces to come forward with new......
Emily's Choice. An Australian Tale. By Maud Joanne Franc....
Low.)—There is nothing peculiarly Australian in this tale, nor indeed much of anything noticeable. It tells the story of a minister's wife, and moralizes to a very great extent......
A Thousand And One Gems Of English Poetry. Selected And
arranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D. (Routledge.)—Dr. 3fackay's name is a sufficient voucher for the creditable way in which those selections have bean made. The editor's original......
Figured, Or Might Figure, In Fair Average Magazines. The...
idea in them is in the first story, where the mode of proposal adopted by a diffident young man, and the consequences entailed by it, are amusing enough. The young man is in......
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