19 DECEMBER 1885, page 25

Chapters On Flowers. By Charlotte Elizabeth. (seeley And...

"chapters" were worth disinterring from the pages of the extinct Lady's Magazine. The author, who was well known in certain circles in her days, and can hardly be yet forgotten,......

Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. Publish, With Singularly...

a poem, read recently by Mr. Duncan McGregor Crerar before the Burns Society of New York. In this case we prefer the sauce to the solids. Mr. Crerar is an enthusiast, and he......

Mr. " Max O'rell " Seems In Danger Of Losing

his head in conse- quence of the success attained by his clever hit "John Bull and his Island." At all events, the sarcasm in The Dear Neighbours ! (Field and Tuer) is......

We Are Glad To See Published (hamilton, Adams, And Co.)

a " popular letter-press edition," in two volumes, of Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, with anecdotal biographies of the " worthies" portrayed. Kay was to Scotland—for his artistic......

Does " A Peer's Son," Who Writes The Radical's Daughter

(Long- mane), fancy that all would be well with us if only some Conservative in the position of Lord Randolph Churchill were to marry the daughter of a Liberal like Mr.......

Five Minutes Too Late ; Or, Leslie Harcourt's Resolve. By

Emily Brodie. (Shaw and Co.)—This is doubtless intended to be a boy's book; we are sorry that we cannot congratulate the lady author on her success. We are afraid that any boy......

Thrown On The World ; Or, The Scrapes And 'scapes

of Ray and Bertie, by Edwin Hodder (Hodder and Stoughton), is one of the best gift- books of the season that has come under our notice, and is clearly recognisable in all ways......