Gives A Very Able Summary Of The Character And Policy
of this Monarch, one of the ablest—if not actually the very ablest—in the succession of French Kings. Philip Augustus was great, both as a soldier and as a statesman ; if he......
Title. "majestic" Is An Adjective Which Can Never Be Applied
to cookery. You cannot have a majestic leg of mutton except in "Alice Thro' the Looking-Glass." The book itself very sensibly makes no claim to literature, but merely gives a......
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Murray's Cyclist's Road-Book. (John Murray.)—It is to be hoped that this handy little red book will prove to be the first of a series. The present volume gives some of the......
Plauti Bacchides. Edited, With Introduction, Notes, &c.,...
M.A. (Methuen and Co.)—Some years ago Mr. McCosh, happening to " lift" (why " lift " ?) an old edition of Ritschl, and making further inquiries, "was considerably dis- appointed......
English Hexameters. By T. G. Omond. (d. Douglas, Edinburgh )
—We find little to object to and something to commend in Mr. Omond's essay, but when we come to examine his "specimen" we cannot see that he has done better than his......
The Chronicle Of The Discovery And Conquest Of Guinea....
by Gomes Eannade /aurora. Now first done into English by C. R. Beazley, M.A.., and E. P. Prestage, B.A. Vol. I. (For the Hakluyt Society.)—In 1450 Azurara wrote an account of......
A Man Of Moods. By H. D. Lowry. (bliss, Sands,
and Co.)—A certain literary man, Holden by name, is seized by a sudden dis- gust for London and its ways. He will lead a simpler life, and decides to try Scilly, to which he is......
Best Of The Series, But Fairly Up To The Average.
It is a story of the last century, of smuggling and of love, and gives both with plenty of vigour and picturesqueness. The writer looks on life in a kind:3r, liberal way, and......
The Lower Life. By Francis Gribble. (a. D. Innes And
Co.)— The "Lower Life" is practically the life of Stock Exchange speculation. Mr. Gribble appears to know a good deal of the secrets this business, and is not chary in his......
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