28 NOVEMBER 1863, page 20

The Course And Current Of Architecture. By Samuel...

tect. (John Weale ; Day and Son.)—Mr. Huggins traces the progress of architecture by "a disposition of the styles," which is a "compromise between the chronological and......

Famous Ships Of The Btitish Navy. By W. H. Davenport

Adams. (James Hogg and Sons.)—The author seems to have intended this work as a stimulant to lads intended for the Navy, and it is, perhaps, well adapted to excite the nautical......

Current Literature.

Sermons on the Saints' Days. By Henry Whitehead, M.A., Curate of Clapham. (Bosworth and Harrison.)—In days when it is thought a mark of ability for a preacher to weary out the......

The Wife's Evidence.*

IN Mr. Wills's novels,—at all events in this, the last and much the ablest of the number,—masculine power and strength of con- ception rise to the very verge of genius, which......