England Under The Tudors. Vol. I., "king Henry Vii." By
Dr. Wilhelm Busch. Translated by Alice M. Todd. (A. D. Innes and Co.) —This volume, which ought to have been noticed long ago, comes with an introductory commendation from Mr.......
In New South Africa. By H. Lincoln Tangyo. (horace Car.)—
These "Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia" date, of course, from before the late troubles, though the writer in preparing the narrative for the press has had the events of......
Chrystal, The Newest Of Women. By " An Exponent." (digby And
Long.)—We do not see anything of the "newest" about Chrystal. There is, perhaps, something new in the gloss which the writer of this story puts upon her ways of thinking and......
Devonshire Wills. By Charles Worthy. (bemrose And Sons.)...
contains some heindrede ,of "annotated tests- mentary abstracts," ranging in point of time over about two centuries and a half (from the sixteenth century). The chief value of......
A First Sketch Of English History : Part Ii., 1307 - 1689.
By C. J. Matthew, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an effort, and on the whole a successful effort, to give the inner meaning of the changes and movements which seem at first......
Six Lectures On The Ante - Nicene Fathers. By F. J. A.
Hort, D.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—" These," writes the editor in his prefatory note, "were almost the only popular lectures which Dr. Hort gave." Commonly the extreme condensation......
Later Lyrics. By T. B. Aldrich. (j. Lane.)—this Is A
charm- ing little volume, containing about fifty pieces chosen from Mr. Aldrich's later volumes, — viz., "Mercedes," "The Sisters' Tragedy," "Wyndham Towers," and "Unguarded......
John Ellerton. By Henry Housman, B.d. (s.p.c.k.)—mr.
Ellerton certainly deserves to be put in the first rank of modern hymn-writers. His compositions of this kind numbered in all nearly a hundred, and some of them have met with a......
Geometry For Kindergarten Students. By Adeline Puller....
Co.)—This is a book meant for teachers, and among these, for such as have not had a regular mathematical train- ing. It deals with elementary qualities of both planes and......
Harvard Studies In Classical Philology. Vol. Vii. (e....
is a more than usually interesting volume. Mr. Louis Dyer disposes of the somewhat prosaic objections which have been made to the plot of the Agamemnon, in which certainly the......
Four Women In The Case. By Annie Thomas (mrs. Pender
Cudlip). (F. V. White and Co.)—Why "four" only ? There are twice as many. Mrs. Sutherland and her three daughters, Jenny Wyvern (who is the heroine), her mother, Donald Cleve's......
The Daughter Of Alouette. By Mary Alicia Owen. (methuen And
(.o.)—The daughter of Alouette is a half-bred girl, daughter of a French trapper and an Indian woman. This is a clever study of her character, as she grows up under the care of......
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