Poems. By James Mather. (gardner.)—these Poems, For The...
descriptive in character, abound in good feeling and defective metre. The author has a love of Nature which does him credit ; but the expression of that love is marred by gram-......
If The " Valentine " Has In A Large Degree
gone out of fashion, the " Christmas Card" has more than supplied its place. There never was so rich a choice, nor was the taste displayed anything like so good. The proportion......
A Hanoverian - English Officer A Hundred Years Ago....
Ompteda, Colonel in the King's German Legion, 1765- 1815. Translated by John Hill, M.A. (Grevel and Co.)—" Every distinction is much the same to me," Colonel Ompteda once wrote,......
Round The World On A Church Mission. By The Rev.
G. E. Mason. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—Mr. Mason is to be congratulated on having written a volume that has not a dull page in it. Strong in his......
Wise Words And Quaint Sayings. By Thomas Fuller. Selected By
Augustus Jessop, D.D. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—" Wit," says Coleridge, " was the stuff and substance of Thomas Fuller's intellect," and he adds that this circumstance has......
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