The Badminton Library : Driving. By The Duke Of Beaufort.
(Long-mans and Co.)—This new volume of the Badminton Library is second to none of the series, either in general interest or general lucidity. His Grace's introduction is......
Winter Sketches From The Saddle. By John Codman....
Codman is a septuagenarian equestrian who writes some very delightful sketches of his wanderings in Westchester County, New York. A cultivated and intelligent observer, he knows......
The Queen's Jewel. By M. P. Blyth. (bentley.)—this Is A
story of Queen Anne's day, and is written expressly for the purpose of making a hero of her son, William, Duke of Gloucester, who, had he lived, would have ascended the English......
The Trade Of The United Kingdom With The World. By
Thomas J. Dymes. (Elliot Stock).—This little volume of not much more than one hundred pages is one of those politico-economic ready-reckoners which ought to be on the table of......
Darwinism And Politics. By David G. Ritchie....
idea of this brochure, which is not inade- quately expressed by its title, is a decidedly fascinating one, and there is a good deal of what can only be described as very clever......
Nature's Serial Story. By Edward P. Roe. (sampson Low And
Co.)—Mr. Roe's undoubted passion for Nature assumes a different form from Mr. Burroughs's. He takes his readers to a country- house—of the American, not of the English type—and......
Sir Lucian Elphin, Of Castle Weary. 2 Vols. Edited By
his Sister. (David Douglas.)—Mrs. Trevanion has set herself a bold task,—that is, presuming her narrative is a true one, and that she has told everything. This granted, she has......
Industrial Rivers Of The United Kingdom. By Various Well-...
Experts. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—It is perhaps as well that the names of all the well-known experts are withheld, for there is a striking want of variety of treatment of an......
Gibraltar. By H. M. Field. (chapman And Hall.)—mr. Field...
a visit to Gibraltar, and fell in love with the place at once. One fault only could he find,—it was too noisy ; but, as he explains, he did not stay till the noisiest time, the......
Colour. By C. T. Whitmell. (w. Lewis, Cardiff.)—the Por-...
of this treatise that discuss " Colour-Blindness " and " Colour-Perception " possess much new and valuable matter, and point to much that can be done in the way of verifying......
Aalesund To Tetuan. By C. R. Corning. (alexander Gardner,...
Corning's style is very vigorous and lively, and he travels at a great pace, both in language and in actual sight-seeing. He makes no long stay anywhere, but hurries on as if he......
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