Latin Verse Composition. By The Rev. Francis David Minim...
(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—The writing of Latin verse, if not exactly a lost art, is passing out of use. The more the pity. However, there is still left a fairly good number......
Experiences Of A Prussian Officer During The...
Richard Graf von Pfeil. Translated by Colonel C. W. Bowdler from the fourth edition. (Stanford.)—We need not wonder that Graf von Pfeil's " experiences " created a great......
Is Not Without Faults. Those The Editor Perceives Clearly...
and points out without partiality. The most serious, artistically speaking, is the interpolation of the love supposed to be felt by the heroine for the Girondist Deputy......
Doubt Whether Tacitus Can Be Said To Have Had "a
hatred of imperialism." That his ideal was a republic may be conceded ; but he knew it to be impossible. " Omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit," ho says without......
Our Bible : How It Has Conte To Us. By
the Rev. R. T. Talbot. (Isbister and Co.)—Canon Talbot begins with some account of the MSS., Hebrew and Greek, of the Bible, which he illustrates by some apposite instances from......
Gardening In This Really Elegant Essay. But Though We Cannot
but agree with almost every rule and warning that she lays down, the conviction is borne in upon us that gardeners, whether professional, amateur, artistic, naturalistic,......
Canonical And Uneanonical Gospels. By W. E. Barnes, B.d....
Barnes gives us here a very useful summary of the arguments about the early date and genuine character of the four canonical Gospels. He shows briefly what testimonies are found......
The Bible—which Are Those Here Treated—are Especially...
made a readable and pleasant little book out of his subject. We are a little surprised when we read that "Adam gave the birds their old Hebrew names." But simplicities of this......
British History And Papal Claims. By James Paton, B. #
. 2 vols. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The author of this book tells us pretty clearly in his preface what he thinks of its value. "If this history has in any degree realised the aim......
Some Country Sights And Sounds. By Phil Robinson. (t. Fisher
Unwin.)—Mr. Phil Robinson's humour is scarcely as fresh and pleasing as it used to be in days of old. The essays in this volume have, in part at least, seen the light before. As......
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