A Lonely Life. By The Author Of " Wise As
a Serpent." (Houlaton.) —This is a tale the interest of which the critic will not injure by reveal- ing the plot, for this, indeed, the author does not attempt to involve in any......
Curious Facts Of Old Colonial Days. By James Banwicke....
Low and Co.)—These facts are certainly very "curious." Indeed we might apply a very mach stronger epithet to many of them. The stories of the dealings of the Government with the......
Two Stately Volumes Are To Be Added To The Literature,
already copious, of the Abyssinian Expedition.—Reconnoitring in Abyssinia, by. Colonel H. St. Clair Wilkins, R.E. (Smith, Elder, and Co.), contains what are, in fact, the first......
Forsaking All Others. By Emma Pickering. 2 Vols....
is the history of an elopement, and of the secret marriage which followed it, and of the numberless troubles, humiliations, and sorrows- which ensued. The purpose, therefore, of......
Our Domestic Fire-places. By F. Edwards, Jun. (hard...
agrees with Nathaniel Hawthorne, who says in his "Mosses- from an Old Manse " that the old appeal to the nation " to fight for their hearths " would fall dead in a land of close......
Obtained Only Two Species Of Fish, And In The Great
inland lake of Ashangi procured but one solitary specimen, and that in an illegitimate way from the stomach of a grebe. The book is very handsomely got up........
Current Literature.
The Contemporary Review: August. (Strahan.)—It seems unfair to- find fault with a review which has shown such marked excellence as has the Contemporary daring the last few......
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