Westminster Abbey. By W. J. Loftie, B.a. With...
by H. Railton. (Seeley and Co.)—The articles on West- minster Abbey which have been the principal feature of the Portfolio during 1889, have been republished in a handsome......
The Wandering Knight. By Jean De Cartheny. (burns And...
allegorical work of which we have here a new trans- lation, and which is supposed by many to have suggested to Bunyan the idea of " The Pilgrim's Progress," was first published......
The Hansa Towns. By Helen Zimmern. (t. Fisher Unwin.)— We
fully agree with Miss Zinunern that "there is scarcely a more remarkable chapter in history than that which deals with the trading alliance or association known as the Hanseatic......
My "hansom" Lays. By W. Beatty-kingston. (chapman And...
has republished in this volume a number of humorous pieces of verse which have been already laughed over by multitudes of readers of Punch and other periodicals. It is needless......
Life Of William Ellis. By Edmund Kell Blyth. (kagan Paul,
Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Ellis was a " Philosophic Radical," and exhibited the characteristic failings and excellences of the sect. Possibly the former were exaggerated by the fact......
Lord Allanroe. By " B. E. T. A." (digby And Long.)—if,
as stated in these pages, the law considers that a boy and girl of nine and seven who play at being married at a twelfth-night child's party in Scotland, are thereby validly......
Deacon Hope's American Stories. (remington.) — The Name...
this collection of American stories is not given on the title-page ; whoever he is, he can hardly be described as a new and great Transatlantic humorist. He is not incapable of......
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