12 APRIL 1884, page 25

The British Quarterly Review. April. (hodder And...

article of this number is a noteworthy criticism, by Mr. St. George Mivart, of Mr. J. B. Stab's remarkable book, "The Concepts of Modern Physics," and indirectly, of much of the......

Lancashire Gleanings. By William E. A. Axon. (tubbs,...

Chrystal, Manchester; Simpkin and Marshall, London.) The articles of which this book is composed were originally printed in periodicals, and the author has done well to put them......

Marked "in Haste." (prow's Printing Company, New York ;...

Low and Co., London.)—The plot of this story is very slight, the device of a brother mistaken for a lover, and becoming the cause of misunderstandings and jealousy, is......

Porrity. — Romance Of Song. By William Reid. (d....

verses were the juvenile productions which Mr. Reid tells us in his preface some of them are, we might give him some en- couragement. Fluency and facility of a certain kind......

The English Illustrated Magazine Makes, We Are Glad To See,

a stand against the preponderance of fiction which is the bane of some English magazines. What can be more deplorably disappointing in its way than to take up, for......

Harper's Magazine.—this Number Opens With Two Diverse...

Lover's Pilgrimage" to Verona, with its amusing experiences of a search for Juliet's house and Juliet's tomb ; and "Visit to Sardis," with an account of the -recent excavations.......

The Century Has A Remarkably Interesting Article On The ."

White House" at Washington. The illustrations, the interiors especially, are excellent; and the history of the House, the Windsor Castle of the States, is eminently readable.......

0 - Iria Raleigh. By W. W. Follett-synge. This Novel,...

reviewed in our columns on its first appearance, has been translated into French by Madame Wister, and has pleased French readers to an extent which indicates that the "......

St. Nicholas Supplies The Usual Variety Of Entertainment...

young clientele. Miss Alcott contributes a touching little tale of the days when the Indians were still a danger to settlements which have now long forgotten the last of them.......