St. Francis De Sales. By The Author Of "a Dominican
Artist." (Rivington.)—The author says in his preface, "the trifling details of his life and conversation, have been dwelt upon, rather than those more specially concerning his......
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Sir Walter Scott : The Story of his Life. By R. Shelton Mackenzie. (Boston, U.S., J. R. Osgood.)—The enthusiasm of our friends on the other side of the Atlantic about some of......
Kirstin's Adventures. By The Author Of "casimir, The...
(Bell and Daldy.)—This little tale, a posthumous work, as we are sorry to learn from the "advertisement," comes with a good recommendation which it does not fail to justify,......
Recent Sermons.* Readers Who May See Very Clearly The Value
of Mr. Whitehead's Sermons—and there are few, we should imagine, who can fail to see it —may yet have a difficulty in classing them or defining their special excellence. As to......
Phases Of Bradford Life. By James Burnley. (simpkin And...
volume is a reprint of papers which have appeared in a local paper. Perhaps we may be allowed to say that they do it con- siderable credit. The " Phases " are photographs, not......
The Fortunes Of Tom Haswell, And Tom Haswell's Fortune. By
Mary Hayman. 2 vols. (Newby.)—This is a most melancholy and purpose- less story. The main subject of it is the hero's search for his sister, who has been shut up in a madhouse......
Kennaquhair : A Narrative Of Utopian Travel. By...
(Chapman and Hall.)—Cervantes killed Don Quixote to save him from unworthy hands, and Addison is said to have shortened the life of Sir Roger de Coverley lest Sir Richard Steele......
Potty. By Katharine S. Macquoid. 2 Vols. (macmillan.)—we...
reading this novel, as we have often found in reading novels before, that our pleasure did not increase as we went en. The cottage by the Devonshire wood, with the two pretty......
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