Essays On Health-culture. By Gustav Jaeger, M.d. Edited...
by Lewis R. S. Tomalin. (Waterlow and Sons.)—" There is nothing like wool" is Dr. Jaeger's adaptation of an old saying (though leather is not absolutely excluded from human......
Love The Fulfilling Of The Law : Extracts From The
Writings and MSS. of the late Norman Macleod, D.D. Selected and arranged by his Daughter, A. C. Macleod. (Charles Burnet.)—The greater part of this volume is occupied by......
Life And Work At Oxford.*
A BOOK has certainly achieved a success when a reviewer can honestly say of it, as we can of Mr. Stedman's volume, that it deserves to be read by the people for whom it is......
A Village Tragedy. By Margaret L. Woods. (bentley And Son.)
—It is difficult to speak of this book in words that are suitable to its undoubted literary merits. We have never read anything more pain- ful. From beginning to end there i8......
In, Southern Seas : A Trip To The Antipodes. By
‘' Petrel." Illus- tmted by " Twain." (Grant and Son, Edinbargh.)—A pleasant little book of travel, though it tells us nothing new. The writer went to Tasmania, xi/ Teueriffe......
Progress Of The Church In Lou ?on During The Last
Fifty Years. By the Rev. W. Walsh. (Rivingtons.)-1 book of this kind is the best contribution possible to the cause of Church Defence. Figures do not adequately represent the......
Ordinary Domains Of Novel-writers. In The Story Before Us...
is plenty of liveliness, though no attempt at the direct drollery of the book that first drew the universal attention of the public to its author. It is curious that Mr.......
Current Literature.
Colour. By Professor A. H. Church. (Cassell and Co.)—The object of the volume now before us is to present to the intelligent and cultivated student considerations which, while......
Sketch Of American Finances, 1789-1835. By John Watts...
P. Putnam's Sons.)—" How we may best manage, and most speedily pay off, our great public debt, will practically be a vital question in American politics for a long time to......
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