Rowland Hill; His Life, Anecdotes, And Pulpit Sayings. By...
J. Charlesworth. With an Introduction, by C. H. Spurgeon. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We are sorry to say that this volume has disappointed us. It seems that the best stories,......
The St. James's Magazine And United Empire Review Is Of
a still less definite sort than ever. The new story here, " Prometha," is highly extravagant, and has passages of very questionable taste. We find nothing else to remark upon.......
Popular History Of France. By Elizabeth M. Sewell....
work which takes in the large range of subjects described in the words " from the earliest period to the death of Louis XIV." necessarily shows to a certain disadvantage by the......
The Picture - Gallery Appeals To A Different Public, And...
have thought., an obsolete one. It must be one which is easily satisfied, at all events.......
Golden Hours For January Is Received. It Will, No Doubt,
be satis- factory to its subscribers, but we find nothing to recommend very specially to outsiders.......
The Savage Life. A Second Series Of " Camp Notes."
By Frederick Boyle. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Boyle is an indefatigable wanderer. The Diamond-Fields of South Africa, Nicaragua, the Gold Coast, Sarawak, are among the scenes of......
Anne Warwick. By Geqrgiana M. Craik. 2 Vols. (h Urst
and Blackett).—There is something in Anne Warwick which reminds one of Mrs. Oliphant's " Rose in June." Not that Anne at all resembles the Rose. She is a young woman with a very......
Storm - Driven. By Mary Healy. 3 Vols. (sampson Low And Co.)
—Miss Healy's latest novel is a very good one of its kind. It presents a sketch of manners rather than a study of character, and its personages are therefore somewhat......
Beliefs Of The Unbelievers, And Other Discourses. By 0. B.
Frothing- ham. (Putnam, New York.)—We have in this little volume a repro- duction of the views of Mr. Theodore Parker, of whom, no doubt, the author is a hearty admirer. He......
The Argonaut For January Is Nicely Printed, Wholly...
and cheap ; we lately noticed favourably the yearly volume, but this number is hardly up to the mark. Its aim, however, to be "literary, religions, and scientific," is beyond......
Notes Of Travel In Egypt And Nubia. Revised And Enlarged.
With an Account of the Suez Canal. By J. L. Stephens. (Marcus Ward.)— These "Notes of Travel," are, in fact, a portion of a work that was very popular some five-and-thirty years......
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