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Captain Masters's Children. By Thomas Hood. Three Vols....

Low, Son, and Marston.)—A novel above the average, but disfigured by the choice of the principal male character. It is called Captain Masters's Children because he had but......

Wines And Other Fermented Liquors. By James Richmond...

Hardwick° )--A. very pleasant little book, but not free from the vice of book-making. The historical account of the wines of the ancients, the early history of the vine, and the......

Murmurings. By Edmund Falconer. (tinsley Brothers.)—it...

say anything of the politics of the two poems which fill thin volume, for the author himself apologizes for his injustice. But it is much to be regretted that Mr. Falconer's......

Travels. By Umbra. (edmonston And Douglas.)—this Volume...

parts, a tour in Iceland and in Switzerland. The former is supposed to have taken place twenty years ago, and the tourists are six in number. We imagine the facts to be......

The Birthplace And Parentage Of William Paterson, Founder...

Bank of England and projector of the Darien Scheme. By W. Pagan, F.S.A. (W. P. Nimmo.)—There was a tradition but no evidence that Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England,......

The Argument It Priori For The Moral Attributes Of God.

By W. Honyman Gillespie. (W. P. Nimmo.)—The author of the argument a priori for the necessary existence of God has in these pages endea- voured to establish, by similar......

Stand It. Norman Maitland Is Essentially A Common-place...

in novels, and nowhere else. How as the son of an Italian actress by an unknown father he could be an Englishman, why he went to Antrim, why he came away again, why he seat for......

Rask's Anglo-saxon Grammar. By Benjamin Thorpe. (trnbner...

of this translation thirty-five years ago was an event, and we are glad now to receive a second edition much improved. Professor Rask wrote for Scandinavian students, and much......

The Anthropological Treatises Of Blumenbach And Bunter....

31.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. (Longman and Co.).-.These are rather curiosities of anthropological literature than of much scientific value ;—indeed Hunter's tract,......

The Poetical Works Of Robert Burns. By Alexander Smith. 2

vols. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Smith has performed his work as an editor with a care which shows that he knows what is due to the reputation of his author and to his own. He has......

Hours Of Quiet Thought. (t. C. Newby). Village Sermons....

series. By G. F. D. Teissier, Rector of Brampton. (Macmillan and Co.)—Two volumes of average sermons, of which the first come from a Scottish manse, and are printed as essays.......