In The Dragon's Mouth. By Mary Macleod. (gardner, Darton,...
Co.)—This is a story of a well-known type,—the braggart discomfited by the lad of quiet courage. Another excellent moral is well enforced. The kindness shown to the hungry......
Sutton - In - Hoiderness. By Thomas Blashill. (w. Andrews...
not easy to choose from the mass of information which Mr. Blashill has collected about the history of Sutton an adequately illustrative specimen. Perhaps an outline of the......
The New Poultry - Guide For British Farmers And Others....
Baghot-de in Bore. (Seeley and Co.)—Mr. de la Bore claims that in this little book he shows "the one and only way of making farm poultry a rent-paying industry ; " unfortunately......
The Shadow On The Blind, And Other Ghost Stories. By
Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—A very little of the supernatural is sufficient in fiction. In fact we are in- clined to think that ghost-stories are scarcely worth......
On The Nile With A Camera, By Anthony Wilkin (fisher
Unwin), is an account given of a journey up the Nile on one of Mr. Cook's big tourist steamers. When one thinks of the poetry and majesty of the great ruins of Egypt, there is......
The Faith Of Lelcim. By The Rev. Edward Sell. (kegan
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a second edition, appearing fifteen years after the first, and comprising the results of so much addi- tional study. As the first edition......
Bible Characters : Adam To Achan. By Alexander Whyte, D.d.
(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Dr. Whyte says what he has to say, which is not seldom of a thoughtful and original sort, in a vigorous fashion. Sometimes he gives the......
The Way They Should Go. By J. E. Panton. (downey
and Co.) —We found so much to like in Mrs. Panton's earlier works that we are sorry to have to express a grave dissent from much that we find in the volume before us. Mrs.......
Hugh Miller. By W. Keith Leask. (oliphant, Anderson, And...
Leask has lost, or, to put the matter as gently as possible, has failed to improve, a great opportunity. The announcement in the preface that "to treat Hugh Miller apart from......
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