29 DECEMBER 1883, page 24

Selections From Cowper's Poems. With Introduction. By...

and Co.)—It is apparently the destiny of every poet to be exhibited in a " selection." Criticism in the present age takes charge of poetry, and decides bow much or how little is......

British Honduras. By Archibald Robertson Gibbs. (sampson...

public interest this book may command will be due not to its style, but to its contents. As a writer, Mr Gibbs is sometimes pretentious, oftener dull, and occasionally even......

From The Pyrenees To The Pillars Of Hercules. By Henry

Day. (New York, Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Day does not pretend to have made any discoveries in the course of his scamper through Spain, or to be anything more than one of those......

A Bushel Of Corn. By A. Stephen Wilson. (david Douglas,

Edinburgh.)—Mr. Wilson has here carefully collected a vast mass of facts relating to the weight of wheat, barley, and oats, as it varies in different seasons and in different......

Italian Rambles. By James Jackson Jarves. (sampson Low...

Jarves loves the old world, especially so old a part of it as Italy, with a fervour which Americans are particularly apt to feel, and describes it with a corresponding sympathy.......

In The West Countrie. By Mary Crommelin. 3 Vols. (hurst

and Blackett.)—This story is in the shape of an autobiography, and an autobiography is not an easy form of narrative to manage. Heroines who describe themselves are very apt to......