Prdetive Marriage.*
MR. MMENNAN brings great learning, much thought, and some quaintness to the consideration of a question which a hundred years ago was much more discussed than it is now, the......
The Coining Day, And Other Poems. By Henry John Doogood.
(Cas- sell, Potter, and Galpin.)—These poems are marked by a cheerful piety, which is more than ordinarily pleasing from one who labours under the affliction of blindness. The......
The St. Germain Legends. "for A Pin," "mignon," "the...
From the French of J. T. Do Saint Germain. (Chapman and Hall.)— These stories are exceedingly well translated, and really give a tolerably adequate notion of that airy grace......
Current Literature.
We have received from Captain Trotter, whose Studies in Biography we noticed last week, a letter, in which he says "that the names of the authors specially reviewed by him are......
The Philosophy Of Health. By Southwood Smith, M.d....
Co.)—This is a revised edition of a book which in 1854 had been already ten times reprinted. The task of preparing it occupied the later years of the author's life, but his......
Misses And Matrimony. By Captain Knollys, Of The 93rd...
(John Maxwell and Co.)—A novel in the form of a diary written by a young lady starting for India. It records her life till marriage, and thence till she comes to England. It......
Day Dreams. By John Andrew; B.a. (longman And Co.)—some Of
these poems have previously appeared in Once a Week. They are always polished in expression and tender in sentiment, always quite sensible, but we see little power in them, or......
The Old City. By "aleph." (w. H. Collingridge.)—a Series Of
papers contributed to the columns of the City Press, which are, however, by no means confined to the local antiquities of London. The young ROBCIIIS, the Princess Charlotte,......
Last Gleanings. By Frank Fowler, With A Preface By A
friend. (Samp- son Low, Son, and Marston.)—Pleasant, humorous papers, which per- haps rather indicate what the author might have done than represent the man. His whole life......
Cecil Forrester. By Frederick Sheridan. Two Vols. (t....
principal character in this worthless novel is the wicked lord who marries a dressmaker under a false name, and deserts her, and attempts to murder her child, and suborns people......
The Victoria Cross. (d. Byrne, Brothers.)—an "official...
deeds of personal valour for which the Cross was conferred, with • a nominal and alphabetical list of the members of the Order, the Royal Warrant creating it, and a short......
On Long, Short, And Weak Sig& By J. Soellierg Wells.
Second Edition. (Churchill and Sons.)—This is an enlarged form of Mr. Wells's essay on the modern theories of the accommodation and refrac- tion of the eye founded on the......
Arno's Waters, And Other Poems. By Frances Jane;forsayth....
Otley, and Co.)—These are very instructive poem; from which the inquiring mind may learn a great deal. The information is often puzzling, but generally novel. For instance, we......
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