Among The Stars. By Agnes Giberno. (seeley And Co.)—this Is
a companion-volume to one of which we had occasion to speak with high praise some time ago "Sun, Moon, and Stars." But it is meant to be " much easier," and indeed in style and......
Two Novels Of Interest.*
FOR humanity, with its instinctive horror of death, to regard being chained to earthly life as an especially fearful doom, seems inconsistent. Yet is not a strong argument in......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOBS, ANNUALS, ETC. Illustrated Poems. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is in every way one of the best gift-books of the year . Twenty-nine poems have......
Children Of All Nations. (cassell And Co.)—these Chapters...
are very properly told in the preface, for the most part appeared in Little Folks. They certainly are worthy of collection and repub- lication, and indeed make up a very......
Warner's Chase. By Annie S. Swan. (blackie And Son.)—the...
begin by being a very unlucky, and end by being a very lucky family. Not only do they exchange poverty for riches, but what is far more difficult, they give up, in some......
The Walking Trees, And Other Tales. By Rosa Mulholland. (m.
H. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—Miss Mulholland has a very graceful and ingenious fancy at her command. The first story in the book has, perhaps, a little too much description in......
Chats About Germany. By Maggie Browne. (cassell And Co.)—...
is a pleasant little volume, which will serve excellently for such an acquaintance with the life of our German kinsfolk as can be got without personal acquaintance. It is amply......
The Sea-fathers. By Clements R. Markham. (cassell And Co.) —
Mr. Clements Markham begins his " series of lives of great navigators of former times" with Prince Henry the Navigator, and ends it with a chapter on " Cook, Scoresby, and......
Lives Great And Simple. By Mrs. G. W. Tooley. (kent
and Co.) —Mrs. Tooley tells here in the space of some 280 pages twenty lives- She should, we think, have named her authorities. Not one of the lives, we may safely conjecture,......
Sunny Spain ; Its People And Places. By Olive Patch.
(Cassell and Co.)—This is a pleasant, readable volume, telling us about Spain as it is, and as it was, and abundantly illustrated with landscapes, drawings of cathedrals,......
Reynard, The For : An Old Story Retold. By Madame
De Sanctis. (W. Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)—We are not told anything about the retelling of this old story. Surely a short preface about so in- teresting a book would have been......
Family Feats ; Or, The Old Home. By Mrs. Reginald
Bray. (Griffith, Farren, Okeden, and Welsh.)—Mrs. Bray tells here a number of adven- tures, founded on fact, she assures us, in every instance, which came in the way of the......
London's Roll Of Fame, 1757-1884. (cassell And Co.)—this...
under the direction of the Library Committee of the Corporation, contains an account of the various presentations of the honorary freedom of the City to distinguished personages......
Our Hero. By Mrs. O'reilly. (routledge And Sons.)—this Is A
readable book, though it strikes us that the point is a little strained by the multiplicity of details. The point is the superiority of a cer- tain Tom, who stays at home and......
Comic Sketches From English History, By...
(W. H. Allen), are good in their way, being really quaint, as well as well-drawn, but it is a way of which we cannot honestly approve.......
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