Winged Words ; Or, Truth Re-told. By The Rev. H.
R. Haweis, M.A. (Isbister.)—This is the writer's seventh volume of sermons, and like his former publications, treats in great measure of subjects rarely mentioned, except......
Odd Half-hours On Odd Half-sheets. By Granville Gordon....
and Co.)—Lord Granville Gordon has a decided talent for ballad-writing. He has an excellent ear for melody, and a considerable command of rhythmical language, which he can......
Notes For Boys (and Their Fathers). By An Old Boy.
(Elliot Stock.)—The author is cheerfully and unaffectedly didactic. Though he does not give much point to his remarks, and is, for such a topic, somewhat deficient in......
The Money-makers. (d. Appleton And Co., New York.)— The...
may be safely left to satirise themselves. Aaron Grimetone, a millionaire, wants to buy an hotel. His price is refused, and he builds an opposition house which ruins the old......
Madame De Presnel. By E. Frances Poynter. (hurst And...
—Madame de Presnel gives a conveniently distinctive name to this novel, but she is not the heroine. Rather, we may say, she is the 'chorus, distributing praise and blame,......
To Canada With Emigrants. By J. Ewing Ritchie. (t. Fisher
Unwin.)—Mr. Ritchie went out, as he says, "to ask the emigrants how they were getting on, to judge for himself whether it was worth any Englishman's while to leave home and......
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