Persia ; An Essay In Greek. By Lancelot Dowdall, Ma.,
F.R.G.S. —This little book seems worthy of special notice. It is an epitome of the history of Persia from the time of Alexander to the rise of the Saracenie domination, written......
Literary By-hours. By H. A. Page. (marshall Japp And Co.)
—Mr. Page has republished, with additions, an essay which he con- tributed some time ago to the British Quarterly Review, on " Vera de Societe and Parodies," adding to it some......
Our Ride Through Asia Minor. By Mrs. Scott-stevenson....
and Hall.)—It would have been better, perhaps, to have written "in " for " through," a preposition which suggests a journey taking in either the length or breadth of the land.......
William Ewart Glads'one, Prime Minister Of England; A...
Literary Biography. By G. A. Emerson. (Ward, Lock, and Co.) —We cannot profess to have much liking for these biographies of living statesmen. But if the thing has to be done, it......
The Story Of Penelope. By Emma Jane Worboise. (james Clark
and Co.)—Penelope tells her story in a great many words, which are not always well chosen. She talks, for instance, of "a wonderfully felicitous period," when she means what......
Current Literature.
The Portfolio. January. (Seeloys.)—The Portfolio opens the year with a number of more than usual excellence, fulfilling so far the very large promise which it makes for the......
Blacks, Boers, And British. By F. Reginald Statham....
Statham, who has edited newspapers in Natal and Capetown, may be taken as a well-informed and intelligent exponent of colonial opinion. The general purport of that opinion is,......
A Grammar Of The Latin Language, For Schools And Colleges.
By Albert Harkness, Ph.D. (Bell and Sons.)—We do not exactly see what place this grammar, for which we are indebted to one of the Professors of Brown University (Providence,......
The Churchman, January. (elliot Stock.)—the Paper Of This...
a learned essay on the words "alms and oblations," in .the Prayer for the Church Militant,—quite conclusive, it seems to us, as a refutation of the common notion of the High......
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