The Leisure Hour.—this Year's Volume Of This Capital...
a distinctly strong one. A series of articles continues the " Sovereigns " and " Statesmen of Europe,"—this time it is the "Peoples of Europe." Then we have an immense number of......
The Life And Work Of W. Holman Hunt. By Archdeacon
Farrar and Mrs. Meynell. (Art Journal Office.)—This is a republication from the Art Journal (not the volume of this year). Mrs. Moynell tells the story of the artist's life as......
Ten Tales Without A Title. By Edith Carrington....
and Co.)—In some of these tales we have birds and beasts confabulating,—geese, for instance, and butterflies, and starfish, if, indeed, these can be so called. Then we have in......
Raff's Ranch. By 1'. M. Holmes. (blackie And Son.)—tom...
adventures in the Wild West present a very truthful picture of cowboy life in the least settled parts of the prairie country. There is plenty of fighting, and Tom has to use......
The Sunday At Home. (religious Tract Society.)—there Are...
serials in the Sunday at Home, " When the Bony-Tree Blooms," by Leslie Keith, and" The Family : some Reminiscences of a Housekeeper," by Evelyn Everett-Green, and the usual col-......
A Wildsheep Chase. Translated From The French Of Emile...
(Seeley and Co.)—We must own to having felt a certain disappointment in reading this book. It begins very well. The writer of these "notes of a little philosophic journey in......
Tales Of Old English Life. By William Francis Collier, Ll.d.
(Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Collier, who ihi well known as the author of some excellent school-histories, has here given us, under the title of "Pictures of the......
Lord Stafford Aucliey. By Heath° Grey. (religious Tract...
the story of a spiritual struggle in a young Simon the Simple was laughed to scorn, heart,—rather more sad than we should altogether like to try a Speeding away through !lel& of......
Friendly Leaves. Edited By Henley I. Arden. (wells...
and Co.)—This is the yearly volume of the Girl's Friendly Journal, and we welcome it as a record of a very good work. The list of contributors is an encouraging proof of the......
The Icelander's Sword, By 5, Baring-gould (methuen),...
1858, is now reissued with certain corrections, suggested, the author tells us, by a subsequent visit to Iceland. When We Two were Parted, by Sarah Doudney (Griffith, Ferran,......
Brave Bessie Westland. By Emma Leslie. (religious Tract...
of Quaker Persecution" is well conceived and well written. There is a good contrast between the temperate Mistress Drayton and the fierce partisan who is the heroine of the......
Prisoner Among Pirates. By David Ker. (w. And R. Chambers.)
—The pirates of this tale are the Tunisian corsairs ; and our hero and his friends are captured by the Bey in the days of the Com- monwealth. The narrative of the voyages and......
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