Our Sea-marks. By E. Price Edwards. (longmans.)—mr....
treating of lighthouses, illustrating his remarks by interesting diagrams, which exhibit the various heights of the principal British rock lighthouses and sections of some of......
Amateur Work. Edited By The Author Of "every Man His
own Mechanic." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is the third annual volume of a most useful publication, which sufficiently declares its purpose by its title. There seems, as we......
We Have Received The Annual Volume Of Cassell's Family...
(Cassell and Co.), with its usual variety of fiction and fact, enter- tainment and utility. So much trouble is taken with these periodi- cals, so mach ability is at the disposal......
Hark ! The Herald Angels Sing. With Illustrations....
Co., New York ; Griffith and Farran, London.)—This familiar Christmas hymn is here illustrated with fifteen engravings after pictures, most of which are famous. "The Chorister......
A Vision Of Souls, With Other Ballads And Poems. By
W. J. Dawson. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Dawson has a certain command of melody, and now and then shows a larger sort of power, as, for example, in the poem called "Salome," a poem on......
Day-dawn In Dark Places. By The Rev. John Mackenzie....
and Co.)—Some five-and-twenty years ago, Mr. Mackenzie- went out, at the bidding of the London Missionary Society, to South, Africa. It was intended that he and his companions......
Preston Tower; Or, " Will He No Come Back Again
?" By Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.)— There is a great variety of interest in this story. There is abund- ance of incident woven together into......
Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, Edited By Miss Alicia A....
(Rontledge and Sons), is another favourite magazine which hardly requires our commendation. Fiction has its place in it, but does not usurp the whole. The useful is carefully......
Little Workers : A Book For Boys And Girls. (t.
Nelson and Sons.) —Here the little folk may learn about gardening, about building toy. bricks into houses, and other pleasing occupations which will anyhow keep them quiet.......
Our Village Life. Words And Illustrations By Lady H....
(Sampson Low and Co.)—The pictures, both of figures (in which the artist uses, not without success, the manner of Miss Kate Green- away), and of still life, flowers, and fruit,......
There Is Something Quaint And Pretty About The Look Of
Howell, Howell : an Old Carol, with pictures by Waidham Hughes. (A. R. Mowbray and Co.)—The illustrations are graceful and appropriatc.—We have also received an illustrated......
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