Healey: A Romance. By Jessie Fothergill. (henry S. King And
Co.)—"Ughtred Earnshaw " sounds like a revival of Wuthering Heights," and the scene amid which the estimable, but not interesting individual who bears that unpleasant name lives......
Aryan; Or, The Story Of The Sword: A Poem. By
Herbert Todd, M.A. (Henry S. King and Co.)—The "Sword" is a magic weapon, which King Aryan has had fashioned for him by certain gnomes whomhe has the good- fortune to get into......
Landscapes, Churches, And Moralities. By The Author Of...
of a Country Parson." (Longmans.)—We opened this volume at a sentence which seemed to account for its strength and for its weakness. "Blessed be reading It is the next......
The Scripture Atlas. (w. And A. K. Johnston.)—this...
sixteen maps, illustrating the course of human history as it is giveit in the Scriptures. The distribution of races according to the ethnology of Genesis, the Old Testament view......
Spoilt Lives. By S. Raper. (tinsley.)—the Three Young...
lives are "spoilt," or nearly spoilt, in this history, are too silly. The author is careful not to put any attractive element into the char- acter of Augustus Lawless, for whom,......
The History Of The Scottish Church. By The Rev. Thomas
M'Crie, D.D. (Blackie.)—Part of this volume was published, we learn, some years ago, this part embracing the history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the......
Blue Bell. By Mrs. G. C. Hudleston. 3 Vols. (samuel
Tinsley.)— This is a lively and readable tale, deriving some of its attraction, per- haps, from the comparative strangeness of its surroundings (the scene is laid in Canada),......
The Story Of The Trojan War. (james Blackwood.)—this Is De-
scribed as "an epitome of incidents, actions, an events which occurred before, at, and after the siege of Troy." The task has been well per- formed, notwithstanding some......
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