The Poor Of The Period. By Mrs. Houston. (f. V.
White and Co.) —It has rarely been our lot to read anything quite so hopelessly unsatisfactory as these two volumes,—nearly five hundred pages of disjointed twaddle, held......
Early Church History. Compiled By The Late Edward...
and enlarged by Charles Tyler. (Hamilton Adams, London ; J. B. Lippencote and Co., Philadelphia.)—Mr. Backhouse, who was an energetic member of the Society of Friends, devoted......
Elizabeth Fry. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman. (w. H. Allen
and Co.)— Mrs. Fry's life has been written before ; but it is a story which becomes more significant as time goes on. The world has been moving very swiftly along the way in......
Three Sisters ; Or, Sketches Of A Highly Original Family.
By "Anon." 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—There is a certain photo- graphic lifelikeness about these sketches (they give us, indeed, the idea of being actually drawn from real......
We Are Glad To Notice The Reissue, In A Cheap
and convenient form, of the first and second series of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Smith and Elder). These two small octavo volumes, each of about 300......
Berna Boyle. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell. 3 Vols. (hurst
and Blackett.) —It is seldom that a novelist changes her accustomed field of action with a success so complete as Mrs. Riddell has attained in this very pleasing book. She......
Latin Pascages Adapted For Practice In Unseen...
G. Sargent, MA. (Rivington.)—This is a most convenient and use- ful little volume. Mr. Sargent utilises his large experience as a teacher and an examiner to bring together a......
The Economic Revolution Of India And The Public Works...
By A. B. Connel, M.A. (Regan Paul and Co.)—The value of this latest work by the author of "Discontent and Danger in India," is impaired, as was that work, by an unreasonable......
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