The Classic Birthday - Book. By F. W. Aveling, Ma. (regan...
Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Aveling gives under each day the name of some more or less distinguished person whose birthday it happens to be ; and he has a wide range of worthies,—Isaac......
Counsel To Ladies And Easy - Going Men On Their Business...
ments. (Leadenhall Press.)—" What to buy, sell, and avoid," might be given as the subject of this little book. General advice, inculcating prudence and business habits, and......
The Cross - Roads. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (national...
a story intended—so the title-page informs us—for "young women and elder girls." Substantially, it is the story of a young woman who promises to marry a groom, but breaks off......
Leona. By Mrs. Molesworth. (cassell And Co.)---this Is...
the books which we find it difficult to class. Published at any other time of the year, it might very well pass for a novel ; pub- lished now, its slightly didactic tone......
The Feather. By Ford H. Madox Hueffer. (t. Fisher Unwin.)
—We cannot profess to have found much pleasure in reading this volume of the "Children's Library." In a way, but with a very serious difference, it reminds us of "The Rose and......
Shooting And Salmon Fishing. By A. Grimble. (chapman And
Hall.)—Mr. Grimble tersely describes his book by the title of "Hints and Recollections," and there could not be a better account of it. The combination makes it at once......
Memorial Of The Late Reverend Henry Allon, D.d. (hodder And
Stoughton.)—In a note which serves as a preface to this little volume, the reader is informed that it "aims simply at being as exact a record as possible of the services......
Our Trip North. By R. Menzies. (digby And Long.)—the "north"
which Mr. Menzies and his friends visited was Orkney. We cannot say that we get in his paper any very vivid description of the place and its people. Nor did the travellers have......
Truth About The Salvation Army. (simpkin And Marshall.)—...
contains three papers, by Mr. Arnold White, Mr. Francis Peek, and Archdeacon Farrar. We are glad to have the opinions of competent judges on the subject ; to hear, for in-......
The Squire's Nieces. By E. M. And A. Huntingdon.) Sampson
Low, Marston, and Co.)—A cricket-match, in describing which the authors wisely avoid details, a water-party, a village festival, and other such matters, are described in this......
Man's Great Charter. By F. E. Coggin, M.a. (nisbet.)—this...
of the First Chapter of Genesis" is an able book. Mr. Coggin is not satisfied with the popular conceptions of the meaning of the Mosaic Cosmogony, while he objects to the con-......
Dinners In Miniature. By Ethel Earl. (chapman And Hall.)— "
The needs of small households of dainty ways" are the needs which Miss Earl sets herself to consider. She gives many excellent suggestions, for which we must refer the reader to......
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