Lettice Lisle. By The Author Of "stone Edge." (chapman And
Hall.) —The author in her modest prefaea tells us that her tale is an attempt " to save some of tree relics of speech and thought still remaining from the old days." This will......
The Population Of An Old Pear Tree. From Tho French
of E. van Bruyssel. Edited by the Author of the "Heir of Rodolyffe." (Mac- millan.)—The teller of these "stories of insect life" is supposed to have seen the scenes which he......
Popular Antiquities Of Great Britain. By W. Carew Hazlitt. 3
vols. (J. R. Smith.)—This work is based, Mr. Hazlitt tells us in his preface, upon the materials collected by the late John Brand, these, again, being largely due to an earlier......
Jabez Oliphant ; Or, The Merchant Prince. 3 Vols....
book is called on the title-page " a novel," but it does not answer the description. Jabez is a man who has realized a large fortune in the tea treat), and who retires to his......
Caught In A Trap. By John C. Hutcheson. 3 Vols.
(Newby.)— The gentleman who is " caught " is a certain adventurer who runs off with a half-witted girl, expecting to get a fortune with her. The for- tune is hers if she reaches......
Exercises In Practical Chemistry, Series I., Qualitative...
G. Vernon-Harcourt and H. G. Madan (Clarendon Press) is a very careful, and, as far as it takes the student, the analysis of a single salt, "one acid and one base," really......
A Golden Treasury Of Greek Prose. By R. S. Wright,
M.A., and J. E. L. Shadwell, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—There is a great difference of opinion about the utility of books of extracts for the purposes of a teacher. There are......
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