The Colonisation Of Indo-china. Py J. Chailley-bert. Trans.
prosperity of Hong-Kong and Burmah, particularly as M. Chailley , Bert reviews everything from an independent standpoint, and the style and a few mental peculiarities only......
Kangaroo And Ka.iri. By J. K. Arthur. (sampson Low And
Co.)—There is but little pretence of literary style or proportion in these notes and jottings on Australian life and its peculiar features. We are reminded of a certain......
Theoretical Chemistry. By Professor W. Nernst. Translated...
S. Palmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—It must have been a somewhat arduous task to translate the technical and often involved sentences of Professor Nernst, and we owe thanks to the......
The Land E The Dawning. By E. H. Canney. (remington
and Co.)—The exact plan of Mr. Canney's book is somewhat obscure, and the style generally lacks definiteness; but from what we can gather, he has spent some time in Australia......
Behind An Eastern Veil. By C. J. Wills. (blackwood And
Sons.) —In this volume we have a curious and successful mixture of fiction and fact. A young English lady goes out to join her father in Persia. The father has married a lady of......
Outlines Of Biology. By P. Chalmers Mitchell. (methuen.)—...
practically a text-book for the Elementary Biology Examinations of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England. It seems to us clearly written, interesting in......
The Rise And Development Of Organic Chemistry. By Carl...
lemmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—This most important work was first published in 1479, but has been out of print, we are told, since. It has been •-xtensively revised as to style,......
A Fisherman's Fancies. By F. B. Doveton. (elliot...
Doveton's " fancies " are not connected with fishing. We must own to liking him best when he is describing his angling experiences or giving his impressions of nature,—a subject......
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.......
A Round Trip To North America. By Lady Theodora Guest.
(Stanford.)—There is nothing that calls for much notice in the " Round Trip." Our authoress tries to give us an idea of the scenery, the flowers, and something of the life. She......
Ten Weeks In Egypt And Palestine. By Catherine Janeway....
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The author of this book went the common round, as far as Phila3 and the First Cataract, and then, on another occasion, to Jerusalem. She has not......
Chronicles Of Uganda. By R. P. Ashe. (hodder And Stoughton.)
—It is astonishing how complicated politics can become, even in the heart of Africa, and one reads with a growing bewilder- ment the wheels within wheels which finally led to......
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