Contributions To The Science Of Mythology. By F. Max Muller.
2 vols. (Longmans and Co.)—Professor Max Muller stoutly defends, with the help of the learning in which he has few rivals, the theory of a comparative mythology founded on......
Paris At Bay. By Herbert Haynes. (blackie And Son.)—the...
begins with Sedan, or, rather, with the attack of the Bavarians under Von der Tann on Bazeilles, for the catastrophe of Sedan occupies, in one way or another, chaps. 2-5. In the......
The Ancient Volcanoes Of Great Britain. By Sir Archibald...
Illustrated. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co.) —Sir A. Geikie has devoted two sumptuous volumes to the now happily extinct volcanoes of Great Britain and Ireland, which, however, is......
Olga ; Or, Wrong On Both Sides. By Viii. Vincent.
(Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.)—The Earl of Grantown and his son, Lord Tempeston, are certainly as awkward a pair as ever had to live together. The author is quite impartial......
Stories For Children In Illustration Of The Lord's...
Mrs. Molesworth. (Gardner, Dayton, and Co.)—These eight stories are well adapted for their purpose,—a purpose not very easy to carry out with success, for a moral, when it has......
The Naval Cadet. By Gordon Stables. (blackie And Son.)— The
Naval Cadet is Scotch, of course, and we have the usual preface before embarking on voyages which take in Benin, and end up with the Chino-Japanese War, in which the hero,......
Teaching And Organisation, With Special Reference To...
by P. A. Barnett. (Long,mans and Co.)—This is a volume of some four hundred printed pages, containing four- and-twenty independent treatises upon some branch of the vast science......
The Churches Of Shropshire. By D. H. S. Cranage, Ma.
(Hobson, Wellington.)—This part contains descriptions, illus- trated with eight plates of interiors and exteriors of churches, a churchyard cross, a triptych (a very remarkable......
Billy And Hans: A True History. By W. J. Stillman.
With Pictures by Miss Lisa Stillman (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)—This is an extremely pretty little picture of two squirrels, who spent their little lives in Mr. Stillman's......
Lord Bolingbroke : Being Extracts From The Political...
Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke. Edited (with an Intro- duction), selected, and arranged by the Hon. Stuart Erskine. (The Roxburghe Press.)—Mr. Erskine's extracts from......
Greek Oligarchies : Their Character And Organisation. By...
(Methuen and Co.)—Democracy in its modern sense was unknown to the Greek States. In those where political privilege was most widely extended it was still reserved to a class.......
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