A Mad Tour. By Charlotte Elizabeth L. Riddell. (bentley And
Son.)—Mrs. Riddell tells us that she was persuaded to undertake a pedestrian tour, and that she found herself unequal to the labour which it entailed upon her. This is the......
History Of The First London County Council. By William...
(National Press Agency.)—It was a reasonable thing, in view of the approaching renewal of the Council, that one of its most active member/ (Mr. Saunders numbered 228 out of 267......
A Handbook For Travellers In India And Ceylon (john Murray)
is a new edition, of necessity much altered from the original issue. India is becoming a hunting-ground for the curious, and their needs are well catered for in this book, a......
A Yorkshireman's Trip To The United States And Canada. By
William Smith. (Longmans.)—Mr. Smith has nothing par- ticularly new to say about the States and Canada. That he was somewhat fortunate in his experiences; may be concluded from......
Gods And Heroes; Or, The Kingdom Of Jupiter. By R.
E. Francillon. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Francillon tells the old stories of gods and demigods, the dwellers on Olympus (whom he calls, we see, by their Latin names), and the......
The Secret Of Madame De Hendee. By The Author Of
" Mademoi- selle Mori" (Methuen and Co.)—This is a very pretty love-story, with the thread of something darker running through the plot. Soulange, granddaughter of Madame de......
Glimpses And Gleanings Of Church Lore. By T. E. Thiselton
Dyer. (A. D. limes and Co.)—Mr. Dyer has put together a number of interesting facts and fancies, and made a very readable book out of them. " Church-Building Legends," in which,......
Kelly's Handbook Of The Titled, Landed, And Official...
(Kelly and Co.), appears in its "eighteenth annual edition." Besides the usual information, Parliamentary, &c., it contains an alphabetical list of all persons possessing......
We Have Received Vols. %xxix. And Xl. Of Sacred Books
of the East, edited by F. Max Muller (Clarendon Press). They contain, in two parts, under the subdivision of " Sacred Books of China," The Tarts of Titoism, translated by James......
Behranvji Malabari. By Dayaram Gidumal. With An...
Nightingale. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Malabari's life-work has been to bring about a reform in the marriage customs of his countrymen,—to abolish, to put the matter briefly,......
Races And Peoples. By D. G. Brinton, A.m., M.d. (n.
Hodges New York ; Began Paul, Trubner, and Co., London.)—This little volume is a reprint of lectures delivered at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, in 1890, with......
From Harvest To Haytime. By Mabel Hart. 2 Vols. (hurst
and Blackett.)—The motive of this story is a curious psychological experience, a loss of memory arising from some physical injury. If Christian could have been forgotten by his......
Essays And Tales. By Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney....
Marshall.)—Lady Verney (1819-1890) was the sister of Florence Nightingale. In the midst of her many social duties, she continued to publish from time to time, chiefly in the......
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