Meta's Letters. A Tale. By Mrs. Ensell. (saunders And...
A young lady's tale in young-lady letters. We will not profane its mysteries by exposing them to the public gaze in these columns.......
The Modern Peach - Pruner. By The Rev. T. Collings...
Gardener Office.) — We are always happy to eat peaches, and we are therefore grateful to all who attempt to improve or propagate the species.......
Life Of Jefferson Davis. By A South Carolinian. (bacon And
Co.)— We cannot see the object of this life, which merely relates a few facts about Jefferson Davis, and which might have been written by an incon- stant reader of newspapers.......
Connected Poems. By Charles Seabridge. (triamer); The...
By Mrs. SewelL (Jerrold and Sons); The Edda of Spentund the Learned, from the Old Norse or Icelandic. (Triihner.)—Three small volumes, which in one sense or another profess and......
Occasional Essays. By Chandes Wren Hoskyns. (longmans.)—...
written so charmingly on the subject of a clay farm, of all other subjects the least attractive, that we are rather disappointed in these essays. The papers on "Landlord" and......
A Typographical Gazetteer Attempted. By Rev. Henry...
: Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Cotton's object is to pre- serve the date at which printing was first introduced in each of the places mentioned in this gazetteer. The number of......
Types From The Hebrew And Greek Scriptures, As...
the Colours of the Rainbow. By Mrs. Kelly. (Darton and Co.)—The less said of this strange patchwork the better. Mrs. Kelly does not seem to reflect that the colours of the......
A History Of Ancient Christianity And Stwred Art In Italy.
By Charles J. Homans. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. tremens, we believe, is or was what some call a convert, and others a pervert. We had no right to read this valuable......
A Practical Treatise On Banking, Currency, And The...
Arthur Crump. (Longmans.)—Mr. Crump has given us a book of much interest, some amusement, and considerable information, but ho is not very originaL He appears to have borrowed......
Aristotle On Fallacies. By Edward Poste, M.a....
S3phistici Elenchi, with translation and notes by a Fellow of OrieL Mr. Poste alludes in his preface to this very scholarly book to the objection that the whole subject of......
Plain Papers By Pikestaff. (trtibner.)—the Author Of...
to an old adage, and proceeds to exemplify it. We never knew how plain a pikestaff was till we read these papers.......
My First Cruise. By W. H. G. Kingston. (cassell.)—a Story
for boys who are too young to take interest in Marryatt and Basil Hall. We are free to confess that we have passed that age.......
The Passion Week. By The Rev. William Hanna, D.d. (edinburgh
: Edmonston and Douglas.)—These lectures take us from Palm Sunday to Holy Thursday, combining in one the narratives of the Four Evangelists. Dr. Hanna may also lay claim to the......
The Religious Opportunities Of The Heathen Before Christ....
F. Slater. (Sunderland : Hills.)—Mr. Slater is a Wesleyan minister, and of the five chapters in this book four have appeared in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. They are not......
Specimens Of Early English, Selected From The Chief...
A.D. 1250—A.D. 1400. By R. Morris Esq. (Oxford : Clarendon Press.) —Wordsworth censured the Johnsonian collection of the English Poets for not beginning with Chaucer. This......
The Common Nature Of Epidemics. From Writings And Reports By
Southwood Smith, M.D. Edited by T. Baker, Esq. (Triibner.)—Dr. Southwood Smith's name is well known as that of a benefactor to humanity. But the cattle plague and the cholera of......
E Fur Si .jfuove. By N. A. Nieholson, M.a. (triibner.)—one
of the essays in this, volume will be read with interest, and deserves the praise of ingenuity. It is the essay on "Space," which occupies four pages, though it cannot be said......
The Clergy And The Pulpit In Their Relations To The
People. By M. l'Abb6 Isidore Mullois. Translated by George Percy Badger. (Smith and Elder.)—Suggestions, criticism, experience abound in this book, and we can recommend it both......
A Sabbath - Day Journey. (houlston And Wright.)--we Are...
preface that this book was written in a time of affliction, and we refrain from criticizing it.......
Anderkigh Ha& A Novel In Verse. By Edmund C. Nugent.
(Bentley.)—The verse is the verse of Ingoldsby, but the hand is the hand of Mr. Nugent. Perhaps the cleverest part of the volume is the "alliterative apology" with which it......
A. Handbook Of The Art Of Illumination As Practised During
the Middle Ages. By Henry Shaw, F.S.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—Mr. Henry Shaw has produced a volume which, though sumptuous in its way and beautiful in every way, is comparatively......
The Lost Cause; A New Southern History Of The War
of the Coale- ckrates. By Edward A. Pollard. (Triibner and 0o.)—An enormous book, calling itself "the Standard Southern History of the Late War," and breathing extreme......
Dr. Goethe's Courts*. A Tale Of Domestic Life. From The
German. (Routledgo.)—The subject of this story was important enough for the world, as but for it Goethe could hardly have been born. But the book was scavely worth writing, and......
Tales, Songs, And Sonnets. By J. W. Dalby. (longmans.) A
Waif on the Stream. By S. M. Butchers. (Trabner.)—We sit with sad civility over the books of verse which pour in upon us, feeling with Pope that to laugh were want of goodness......
Bertha Devreux : An Incident In The Wars Of The
Roses. (Bentley.)— A long and level tract of rhyme. The incident fieW1111 tO have been omitted.......
Crimson Pages. A Story Of The Sixteenth Century. By John
Tillotson. (S. 0. 13eeton.)—One of those unpleasant books in which all the good people are always being heretics, and being tortured or burnt. We are not advocates of......
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