Norrie Scion; Or, Driven To Sea. By Mrs. George Coppice.
(Nimmo.)— At the close of her tale Mrs. Cupples gives a piece of advice to "would- be-heroes," to the effect that they had better take the advice of parents and guardians before......
The Logic Of Nantes. By I. P. Hughlings. (walton.)--we Shall
best describe this work by its secondary title, as "Au Introduction to Boole's Laws of Thought." It seeks, in fact, to popularize Professor Boole's system, and, if we may use......
We Have To Notice A Compendious And Useful Edition Of
Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crib, by Dr. Wilhelm Wagner. (Deighton and Bell, Bell -and Daldy.)—The annotations are compressed within a small compass, but deal with all the......
The Ivory Gate.*
THE reviewer, whose business, if not pleasure, is to criticize novels, may feel some modicum of gratitude towards Mr. Mortimer Collins. His story, being confined within two......
Madame Louise Of France. By The Author Of Tales Of
Kirkbeck. (Rivington.)—This is an adaptation and condensation of a longer French life, and makes a book sufficiently interesting and readable ; sometimes ex- citing a smile that......
James Wyvern's Sin. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. 3 Vols....
—We feel irritated by this novel, when we ought not to have felt any- thing beyond weariness. For this we have to blame the title, which, though not attractive, is effective in......
Current Literature.
Historical Gleanings. By James E. Thorold Rogers. (Macmillan.)— Mr. Rogers sketches Montague, Walpole, Adam Smith, and Cobbett, the first and second somewhat indistinctly, the......
The Hakluyt Society Publishes The Fifth Letter Of Herz=...
to , the Emperor Charles V. Translated by Don Pascual de Gayangoa. This is an interesting and valuable document, which has never before appeared in an English form. It gives an......
The Crack Shot, By Edward C. Barber (sampson Low), Is
a full account of the theory of shooting, that is, of the laws of motion, with particulars of the action of gravity, resistance, &e., of the various systems of manufacturing......
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