Tavern Anecdotes And Sayings. By Charles Hindley....
the books which cannot be criticised. The stories will be very stupid to some and will entertain others, Like most collections of the kind, it has the bona qucedam, mediocria......
Alice Godolphin; And A Little Heiress. By Mary Neville. 2
vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—Is it unfair to take advantage of an author's confi- dence, when she tells us that she has published at an earlier ago than is usual for such ventures,......
The Life And Campaigns Of General Lee. By His Nephew,
Edward Lee Childe. Translated from the French by G. Lifting. (Chatto and Windus.)—That the writer should have succeeded in being what he seeks to be, entirely impartial, could......
Was It A Marriage? By Karl Hiihno. 3 Vols. (tinsley
Brothers.) —The title seemed to promise an exciting story, possibly of the sensa- tional type, but still in all probability readable. The opening chapters, however, though not......
The Dialect Of The English Gypsies. By B. C. Smart,
M.D., and H. T. Crofton. (Asher.)—This is a greatly enlarged reissue of a paper which was read by Dr. Smart about fourteen years ago before the Ethnological Section of the......
Edith Dewar; Or, Glimpses Of Scottish Life And Manners In
the Nine- teenth Century. By Colin Rao Brown. 3 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)— These three volumes do not fulfil in any satisfactory way their promise of giving us "glimpses of......
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