The Religious House Of Pluscardyn. By The Rev. S. R.
Macphail, M.A. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.)—The House Pluscardyn was founded in the early part of the thirteenth cen- tury, by Alexander II., a great favourer......
Palms And Temples. Notes Of A Pour Months' Voyage Upon
the Nile. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Mr. Edwin Arnold introduces, with a preface -which will readily secure the favour which it bespeaks, this volume, the work of his son. The party......
Myths Of The Odyssey In Art And Literature. By J.
E. Harrison. (Rivingtons.)—Miss Harrison, whose book vindicates for her at once a considerable place among the scholars of the day, has treated here six of the Odyssey myths,......
Bristol, Past And Present. By T. F. Nicholls, F.s.a., And
John Taylor. Vol. I., Civil History ; Vol. II., Ecclesiastical History. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol ; Griffith and Ferran, London.)—These two handsome volumes deserve a more......
Science A Stronghold Of Belief. By R. B. Painter. (sampson
Low and Co.)—Belief, we fear, has not a very powerful champion in Mr. Painter. With much that he says as to the dogmatism and pre- sumption of men of science we quite agree, but......
The Egypt Of The Past. By Erasmus Wilson, F.h.b. (kegan
Paul,. Trench, and Co.)—This is a very convenient manual of Egyptian history, of what remains of the country's architecture and arts, and of what we know of the religion and the......
Novels.-it Is No Wonder. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy. 3 Vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—The obvious criticism which will occur, we suppose, to all who estimate the value of this novel (and it is cer- tainly worth estimating), is that it does......
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