23 AUGUST 1890, page 25

Publications Of The Irish Loyal And Patriotic Union,...

Chambers, Westminster.)—These leaflets contain, as usual, some curious matter. Probably every subject touched on in them has been more or less fully discussed in the Spectator;......

The Blue Mountains, And Other Stories. By Lewis...

H. Allen and Co.)—These are described as "stories for children." Some of them are certainly unsuited for any such purpose,—the "Story of a Bookworm," for instance. Others are in......

Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houston. (sampson Low And Co.)...

Houston adds to her account of the Rev. John Mitford (the person described by the title of " Sylvanus "), a short memoir of her father, the eminent naturalist, Edward Jesse.......

Very Much Abroad. By F. C. Burnand. (bradbury And Agnew.)

—Mr. Burnand has collected here a considerable portion of his contributions to Punch during the last twenty-five years. Taken in small quantities, these humours of foreign......

Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of Canada. 1888. Vol. Vi.

(Dawson Brothers, Montreal.)—The Canadian Royal Society is not devoted, as its namesake of England, to science. The first paper in this volume deals with the end of the French......

They Have Their Reward. By Blanche Atkinson. (george...

a well-written and interesting story. The heroine, one Joanna, daughter of a certain ne'er-do-weel, Martin- dale by name, is a character vigorously drawn, and true, we think, to......

Little Mother Bunch. By Mrs. Molesworth. (cassell And...

tale enforces the moral that we are not to judge by appearances, but enforces it with a novel application. A certain Blanche Fellows is a very pretty girl, and because she is......