Therefore. By Florence E. Burch. (religious Tract...
has endeavoured to put before her readers what she conceives to be the troubles which would most likely happen to a young girl who undertakes housekeeping with an invalid......
Her Last Run. By The Hon. Mrs. W. R. D.
Forbes. 2 vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—There is plenty of hunting and love-making in Her Last Run, and also some little dramatic power ; otherwise, the characters do not call for......
Tion Of Professor Rosenbusch's Exhaustive Work On...
has been carefully abridged so as to retain only matter really necessary to the exact student, who will find in its somewhat technical language that thoroughness which belongs......
History Of South. Africa, 1691 - 1795. By G. M`call...
Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. M`Call's first volume, it will be remembered, related the history of the years 1486-1691; the period now under review ends with the occupation of the......
Invisible Powers Of Nature. By E. M. Caihard. (john Murray.)
—The writer has undoubtedly gone about the subject in the right way,—that is to say, supplying elementary facts as to the most common laws of Nature, without overburdening the......
Twice Rescued. By Nellie Cornwall. (j. F. Shaw And Co.)—
This is a touching story of a little boy rescued from drowning by an old Cornishman, and who is afterwards stolen by the gipsies and has to be rescued again. We have some......
History Of The Waldenses Of Italy. By Emilio Comba....
and Shirley.)—Dr. Comba, of the Waldensian Theological College, Florence, would seem at first to be all that a historian of the brave people that defied the thunders of Rome......
Miss Elsie. By H. Mary Wilson. (religious Tract...
is, indeed, not much about " Miss Elsie " in the tale before us ; it is principally devoted to the record of a domestic servant's career. Hannah, the individual in question,......
The Youngest Miss Lorton. By Nora Perry. (ticknor And Co.,
Boston, U.S.A.)—In this collection of stories, we select "That Ridiculous Child" as being perhaps the best, and having many pointed and wholesome truths in it. It relates the......
We May Commend To Students Of History Or Ethics, Seneca
on Benefits, translated by Aubrey Stewart, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)— "Seneca," the translator rightly says, "seems almost forgotten in modern times." Yet he is full of interest,......
The Shadow Of A Life. By J. Lawrence Hornibrook. (swan
Sonnenschein and Co.)—This single-volume novel of two hundred and thirty-eight pages deserves special and favourable notice, not because of any great merits as regards style or......
The Very Same Man. By Greville Gordon. (charles Burnet And
Co.)—The man in question turns up three times, and his reappearance after having been once buried is indeed startling. How he contrived to simulate death, why he did so, and the......
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