High Life And Towers Of Silence. By The Author Of
"The High Alps in Winter." (Sampson Low and Co.)—The main subject of these sketches is still the Alps in winter. Curious and entertaining are the writer's recollections and......
The Bishops In The Tower. By Herbert Mortimer Luckook, D.d.
(Rivingtons.)—The imprisonment, trial, and acquittal of the seven Bishops form the subject of one of the eight chapters or lectures which this volume contains. It is really a......
Stories Of Girls Who Have To Reach Happiness And Fortune
by the thorny and circuitous road of difficulty are common enough ; and in this sense Edith Lawson, by R. Bates (White), may be said to be an essentially commonplace story. Yet......
The Fifteenth Edition Of Notes Of The Parables, By Richard
Chenevix Trench, D.D. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.), differs from preceding editions in having the quotations from the Fathers translated, a change which will make the volume......
"drat The Boys !" By Max O'rell. (field And Tner.)—mr.
"Max O'Rell'a " recollections are certainly amusing, and sometimes, as when he relates his experiences in the Franco-Prussian War, better than amusing. Those who may have to......
Zorah. By Elisabeth Balch. (w. Blackwood And Sons.)—this...
tale of Modern Egypt " is a book of considerable power. hThe scene is laid in the time of the Khedive Ismail, and the hero is a young Arab who fills the poet of Master of the......
Memoir Of Richard Allen. By Hannah Maria Wigham. (hodder And
Stoughton.)—Richard Allen was a Quaker of Dublin, by °coupe- tion a mercer. He took a leading part in philanthropic movements, notably in that for the final abolition of......
Astronomy. By Edmund Nelson. (ward And Look.)—this Volume...
reprint of some papers originally published in " The Universal Instructor." Their author, who is " Her Majesty's Astronomer for Natal" (we are glad to hear that science is so......
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