One Of The Best Text-books Of Geography That We Have
in English has reached a third edition. This is This World of Ours, by H. 0. Arnold-Forster (Cassell and Co.) " The study of geography," writes the author in his preface, " is......
The Story Of Babette, A Little Creole Girl. By Ruth
Manery Stuart. (Osgood, McIlviane, and Co.)—This is one of the most delightful tales that it has ever been our good fortune to read. Babette, one of the daughters of Colonel le......
Tacit Us : Dialogus De Oratoribus. Edited By Charles Edwin
Bennett. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—The Dialogus has had much attention directed to it of late. Professor Peterson, in this country, has published a full edition of it, and......
The Story Of The Stars. By George F. Chambers. (g.
Newnes.) —This little book is written in a conversational style and in a way that makes the information given easily intelligible. Among the chapters is one on " The Brilliancy......
Newton Booth Of California. By Lauren E. Crane. (g. P.
Putman's Sons.)—Newton Booth, sometime Governor of California and United States Senator for California, seems to have been a true orator, with the gift of real and spontaneous......
Told, "is Based Upon That Of Davidson." Davidson's, As...
by Mr. T. A. Buckley, was the Virgil crib with which many people were familiar forty years ago. It was a very indifferent perform- ance, grotesque in parts, and wanting both in......
In A New World. By Mrs. Hans Blackwood. (hurst And
Blackett.)—Very dull and uninteresting is In a New World, with no character that bears even a remote likeness to life, and no incident to disturb the laboured and tedious style.......
The Life And Work Of Bishop Medley. By William Quinhed
Ketchum, D.D. (Elliot Stock.)—John Medley was one of the good men who owe much to their mothers, who trained him for his work with a diligence which might have wearied weaker......
An Introduction To Michael Drayton. By Oliver Elton, B.a....
for the Spenser Society.)—In this modest Introduc- tion Mr. Elton has compressed all that is known or conjectured about one of the most voluminous of English poets. The con-......
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