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Romances Of The Old Town Of Edinburgh. By Alexander...

(Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo.)—These are odd quaint stories, which seem Romances of the Old Town of Edinburgh. By Alexander Leighton. (Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo.)—These are odd quaint......

Arithmetic, Theoretical And Practical. By W. H....

Step by Step. By Henry Caubes and Edwin Hines. Arithmetical Tables in Rhyme. By Rev. H. C. Davies. (Dean and Son.)—Ever since the Bishop of Natal turned his attention to the......

The Elchester College Boys. By Mrs. Henry Wood. With Other

Stories. (Cassell, Patter, and Galpin.)—The fault of this story is that it reminds us of The Channings and other novels of the same author. The good boys are too good, and the......

&raps. By Henry Jenkins, Esq. (james Blackwood.) — Simply...

of extracts, very thick, and not pretending to any order or arrangement. Mr. Jenkins has probably kept a common-place book for a good many years, and has now given it to the......

The Masque At Ludlow, And Other Romanesques. By The Author

of Mary- Powell. (Sampson Low).—This is a return to the first loves of the Author of Mary Pozoell, for the Masque at Ludlow is the story of the- writing and first performance of......

Workmanship And Less Affectation Of Simplicity In These...

in some of his earlier ones, and while these will hardly be popular in the sense of "The Psalm of Life" and "Excelsior !" they will command a more critical approbation. The......

Principles Of Reform In The Suffrage. By Shadworth H....

(Longmans.)—We presume Mr. Hodgson has a theory, but we have not been able to find it out. He has peppered it over with such long words, and put these long words into such long......

77ie Eastern Liturgy Of The Holy Catholic, Apostolic, And...

Church. Printed by authority of H.M.S.L. the Bishop of Iona. (Simp- 77ie Eastern Liturgy of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Orthodox Church. Printed by authority of H.M.S.L.......

The Epistles Of Our Lord To The Seven Churches Of

Asia. By Rev. Marcus Dods, M.A. (Edinburgh : Maclaren.)—These are discourses on the history of the Seven Churches addressed at the beginning of the Revelations, and on the......

Simple Truth Spoken To Working People. By Norman Macleod,...

(Strahan.)—The title.page and the author's name are sufficient indica- tions of the contents of this volume. There are twelve sermons in it, some of them more particularly......

The Geology And Scenery Of The North Of Scotland. By

James Nicol, Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.)—Two popular lectures which certainly ought to be popular. Mr. Nicol writes on geology so as to be under- stood, and on scenery so as......

A Naturalist's Ramble To The Orcada. By A. W. Crichton.

(Van Voorst.)—Mr. Crichton's chapters appeared originally in the Field and deserved the honours of a reprint. He writes chattily of his experiences in chase of birds and seals,......

The Finding Of The Saviour In The Temple. By Rev.

Richard Glover, M.A. (W. Hunt and Co.)—Mr. Glover is the Incumbent of Christ Church, Dover, and this volume contains a series of sermons he preached on the occasion of Mr.......

The Draytons And The Davenants. A Story Of The Civil

War. By the Author of Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—The Draytons are a family in close alliance with Mr. Oliver Cromwell of Ely, and the......

Baton's Football Book. By Frederick Wood. (f. Warne And...

We can appreciate Mr. Wood's raptures about football when it is played according to the rules he his laid down. By the Rugby code the game becomes a mere scuffle, a race between......

The Little Scholar's First Step In German Reading. By Mrs.

Fel& Lebahn. (Lockwood and Co.)—This meritorious little book would have been dismissed in a line, but for its unconscious comedy. Let the two following extracts speak for the......

History Of The Christian Church. By James Craigie...

Vol. M. A.D. 1122-1303. (Murray.)—It seems unfair to dispose of these 630 solid pages of learning in as many letters, but what are we to say of such a volume ? The absence of......

Stodare's Fly - Notes; Or, Conjuring Made Easy. By...

to transfer an object from one hand to the other. while actually retaining it in the one ; to make a shilling pass into the- centre of a ball of Berlin wool, or walk about a......

Lucy West; Or, The Orphans Of Highclijf. By Mrs. R.

B. Patin. (F. Warne and Co.)—We need only say that this is a simple and pleasing little story. There is nothing very new in it, but the readers for whom it is intended are not......