A Bat With Three Tales. By Mary A. Lewis. (henry
S. Sing and Co.)—This is a capital children's story-book, but it seems to be born out of due time. It should have been published at Christmas, when people are on the look-out......
Sir Hubert's Marriage. By Gertrude Townshend Mayor. 3...
are one thousand and four pages, fairly filled with type, all of them occupied with about as small an amount of matter as ever novel was made up of. Sir Hubert terrifies his......
Tinsley's Magazine, For August, Is Very Poor, The Copy Of
verses by poor Felix Whitehnrst, is the best thing in it. What can be the object of printing such common-place stuff as that, for instance, about the "Byways of Health ?" "too......
Current Literature.
The Portfolio. for August. (Seeley and Co.)—The striking thing about the August Portfolio is the remarkable excellence of the letter- press. Almost every article has some......
Conversations On The Gospel Of St. Luke. By Emily Temple
Frere. (Nisbet and Co.)—Surely there is no need to print such conversation as this It must be very awful to see an angel!' said Cecilia.—' Yet we shall live among them some day,......
Of Religions Or Semi-religions Periodicals, We Have The...
edited by Mr. Dale, of Birmingham, a magazine which seems penetrated by the spirit of the now famous motto of the Nonconformist newspaper. The "pretty quarrels" of the political......
Belgravia, For August, (chatto And Windus), Has An...
by Mr. R. A. Proctor, of the well known "Lunar Hoax," which is extremely well worth reading. Mr. Charles Heade must be amused at his meagre and trivial contribution having any......
The Magazines.
THE Fortnightly has many good papers this month, but nothing of very exciting interest One of the best, perhaps, is the account of Russian expansion, contributed by Mr. D.......
Tremadoc Sermons. By H. N. Grimley, Ma. (henry S. King
and Co.)—There is an interesting preface to this volume, giving a full and particular account of the origin and history of Tremadoo Church, the birth-place of these sermons. A......
London Society, For August (s. Low And Co.) Is Very
like Temple Bar, "only more so." It opens with an article, by Mr. J. F. Boyes, called "Queen Scarborough," which we have found very readable, hitting off some of the more......
Finally, We Have Two Other Serials, Which Can Hardly Be
called maga- zines. One, The Picture-Gallery (Sampson Low and Co.), aims at giving month by month photographs of the works of distinguished masters of the English school. There......
Temple Bar, For August. (bentley.)—when A Magazine Has...
in the same number by writers of the calibre of Mr. Trollop°, Mr. Wilkie Collins, and Mrs. Alexander, it encourages its readers to regard tho remaining articles as padding. Mr.......
We Have Found Nothing To Note In The Argosy. — Nor Can
we say anything this month in favour of the Victoria Magazine; some of it indeed (for instance, the note on "Aristocratic Charwomen "), is bad domestic economy, and worse taste......
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