Out Of The Workhouse. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (bentley And
Son.)—This is a good story. The rugged old peasant, Peter Lucas, is a peculiarly well-drawn figure. An ignorant old man, with the narrowest views of life, but hard-headed and......
Sir Benjamin's Bounty. By Emma Marshall. (nisbet And Co.)...
" bounty " is a school-prize which certain candidates con- tend for, one of them using unfair means to secure it. We must own that we do not quite realise what these means......
The Preacher And His Place. By The Rev. David H.
Greer. (R. D. Dickinson.)—This volume contains the "Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching," delivered at Yale last year. Dr. Greer's counsel strikes us as being eminently......
Wayside And Woodland Blossoms. By Edward Step. Second...
Warne and Co.)—Mr. Step need not have made any apology for issuing a second series of his Wayside and Woodland Blossoms. It is justification enough that out of seventeen hundred......
The Adventures Of Don Lavington. By George Manville Fenn....
W. Partridge and Co.)—We are always glad to see Mr. Manville Penn's name on the title-page of a tale. It promises good entertainment, and never fails to fulfil the promise more......
The Mission Field. Vol. %li. (g. Bell And Sons.)—this Is
the annual volume of the periodical in which the S.P.G. words its "proceedings at home and abroad." It is not less full of interest than usual "The Strange Impostor in Chota......
The Political Life Of The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
Illustrated trom Punch. Vol. I. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This first volume, as far as 1876, the year of the Bulgarian atrocities, is not a book that can be properly criticised......
Rugby Football. By B. Fletcher Robinson. (a. D. Innes And
Co.)—This is the first volume of a proposed "Isthmian Library" which Mr. Max Pemberton is to edit. The chapter given to the k Past " is brief. This is probably prudent. The......
The Austin Prise. By The Author Of "sin Months In
the Fourth." (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a story of school life. The fault of its construction, as it appears to us, is that the interest culminates too soon. Generally......
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