Our Earth And Its Story. By Robert Brown, Ph.d. (cassell
and Co.)—Dr. R. Brown, already favourably known for his valuable works, " The Peoples of the World " and " The Countries of the World," has now increased the obligation under......
A Dictionary Of Philosophy. By J. Radford Thomson. (r. D.
Dickinson.)—The plan of the book is to give the ipsissima verbs of philosophers. It represents a vast amount of reading, and doubtless will be found, on the whole, of some......
Some Chinese Ghosts. By Lafeadia Hearn. (roberts...
.)—These Chinese legends show, in some instances, the curious resemblances which run through all the folk-lore of the world. The first story, for instance, " The Sonl of the......
A History Of The Vyne, In Hamp , .hire. By Chaloner W.
Chute. (Jacob and Johnson, Winchester.)—It is pleasant to find the owner of a historic house sensible of the "honour to which be is born." There are some very undesirable......
Municipal Records Of The City Of Carlisle. Edited By R.
S. Ferguson, M.A., and W. Nauson, B.A. (Tharnam and Sons, Carlisle ; Bell and Sons, London.)—Most of this volume, which is one of the publications of the " Cumberland and......
Death—and Afterwards. By Ed Win Arnold. (trfibner And...
Arnold has done well to reprint this suggestive essay from the Fortnightly Review. It is a powerful argument in behalf of a truth which, however strong our motives for believing......
Schoolboy Stories. By Ascot R. Hope. (nimmo And Co.)— There
is no doubt about Mr. Hope's schoolboys being real creatures. They are not heroic, they are not extraordinarily virtuous or victims; but they are ordinary human beings, and not......
The Herb Of The Field. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (macmillan
and Co.)—This is a "revised and corrected" reprint of a book which first appeared more than thirty-four years ago. These thirty.foar years, as she remarks, have made the system......
The Dedications Of Books. By Henry B. Wheatley. (elliot...
Wheatley finds three epochs of dedication, which may be briefly described by the ruling motive of the dedicator,—friend. ship, money, friendship. Early dedicators, as in the......
Service Afloat; Or, The Naval Career Of Sir William Hoste.
(W. H. Allen.)—Sir William Hoste's naval career coincided with the long war with France. He entered the Navy as a midshipman on board the `Agamemnon,' and attracted the......
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