Tfigottometry For Beginners. By J. Todhnnter....
work intended to serve as an inn-eduction to the larger treatise en - the same subject by the same author. A short extract will perhaps show - the nature of the volume:— " Cos.......
The Handbook Of Engraved Gems. By C. W. King. (bell
and DaMy.) —This is a book for use, but it is also a book for show. The many en- gravings of engravings on gems which adorn its pages justify the latter description, while the......
Spanish Papers And Other Miscellanies, Hitherto...
By Washington Irving. (Sampson Low.)—Mr. Pierre Irving, Washington Irving's nephew, and biographer of "the Goldsmith of our time," tells us in his preface to these two volumes......
A Voice Fi - Om The Muses. By James Bird. (simpkin,...
and 0o.)—The author dedicates his book to the working men of Bowling and Bradford, with a statement that front his sixth year he was com- pelled to toil for his bread in a......
The Fasti Of Ovid. The Eclogues And Georgics Of Virgil.
By John Benson Rose. (Derrell and Son.)—Mr. Rose has translated The Fasti and The Eclogues and Georgics into English verse, with a laudable wish to be faithfuL But he never......
Outlines Of Political Economy. By George Henry Smith....
outlines are intended for schools and junior students, and are perfectly clear and simple ; at the same time they convey great and astonishing novelties to young minds, and if......
Character And Characteristic Men. By Edwin P. - Whipple....
Fields ; London, Trilbner.)—Mr. Whipple writes or lectureS pleasantly, and has always an anecdote at hand to keep his audience in a good humour. But he shows a tad want of......
English Church Furniture At The Period Of The...
by Edward Peacock. (J. C. Hotten.)—Mr. Peacock has published here a collection of returns from various parishes in Lincolnshire of the ecclesiastical ornaments destroyed by the......
Hours Of Work And Play. By Frances Power Cobbe. (trubner.)--
Miss Cobbe's uninterrupted industry rather contradicts her present title-page. She seems a disciple of all work and no play, although the effect produced on her is not the same......
Perry And Co.'s I3ostonite Petpetual Diary. The Bostonite...
and diary before us are exceedingly convenient, as the Bos- tanks material is of a kind on which it is as easy to rub out com- pletely what you have written without rendering......
Classical Studies : Their True Position And Value In Eth...
By Rev. Joshua Jones, M.A. (Longmans.)—There is nothing very novel in Mr. Jones's essay, but there is still less in it than is antiquated. Be would retain Classical studios, but......
A Joui-ney Of Life, In Long And Short Stages. By
Frank Foster. (Elliot Stock.)—It is but the other day that we noticed a similar story by the same author. Had he fused the two stories into one, and taken snore pains with the......
The Triumph Over Midian. By A. L. 0. L (t.
Nelson and Sons.)—A strange idea of interweaving sermons with a story. It is true that the sermons bear on the story, and that the lessons of the one are com- pleted by those of......
Life Of Benjamin Silliman, M.d., Lld. By George P. Fisher.
Two vols. (Sampson Low.)—Although this biography mast needs be most interesting to an American public, Professor Silliman had many friends and admirers in England, and indeed in......
Australian Capers; Or, Christopher Cockle's Colonial...
(Routledge.)—Fast, spun out, rollicking, and tedious, this story seems meant to warn people against going to Australia, if they are not fit to live there. The warning would be......
County Courts' Equitable Jurisdiction. By Henry...
Sons.)—" The present work contains :—Firstly, the portions of the County Courts' Equitable Jurisdiction Act which appeared to merit particular attention, with notes. Secondly,......
The Shakespeare Expositor. By Thomas Keightley. (j....
contents of this volume are Shakespeare emenda- tions without the plays, so that any of the former editions may be elucidated. But Mr. Keightley has also discoursed learnedly......
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