Alexa.ndre Dumas' Romances.* This Is The First Instalment...
sumptuous issue of the elder Dumas' romances. Everything about it is of the best. The covers indeed are of paper, leaving, we presume, the possessor to invest the volume with......
The Story Of Africa And Its Explorers. By Robert Brown.
Vol. (Cassell and Co.)—In this volume Dr. Brown carries on the interesting story of which we have spoken in previous notices with well-deserved praise. He takes it up with the......
Noble Womanhood, By G. Barnett Smith. (s.p.c.k.)—mr....
here the story of eight famous women; their names are,—Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Florence Nightingale, Frances Ridley Havergal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sister Dora,......
A Night In The Woods, And Other Tales And Sketches.
By James Weston. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—These "tales and sketches" are slight, but sufficiently pleasing and well written. "Briggs Minor's Zoo" is a gcod specimen of......
The Villa Of Okudiv,e. By The Rev. Edward L. Cutts,
D.D. (S.P.C.K.)—This "tale of the Roman-British Church" is a pleasantly written story of the end of the fourth century, when the Roman power was growing weak in Britain, and the......
Vanished. By David Kr. (w. And R. Chambers ) —this
is a story full of hairbreadth escapes and the other adventures which go to make up an exciting narrative. It must be ranked high among its kind, because the author has a large......
The Quiver. (cassell And Co.)—this "illustrated Magazine...
General Leading" is kept to its high standard of merit. Fiction is fairly represented, but it is not predominant among the contents. These are judiciously varied. The interests......
No Heroes. By Blanche Willis Howard. (gay And Bird.)— Bob,
eldest son of a country doctor in a small New England town, has dreams of heroic adventure which seem little likely to be translated into actual fact. Suddenly his chance seems......
Enchanted Ground. By Catharine E. Smith. (s.p.c.k.)—...
heroine of this story, is a child left to the care of a Welsh farmer and his wife by a particularly weak and silly mother. She becomes discontented with her lot, and has......
Heroes In Homespun. By Aseott R. Hope. (wilson And Milne.)
—Mr. Ascott Hope has taken this time a grave subject for his pen ; he tells the story of the struggle in America for the abolition of slavery, not the struggle that was waged......
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