Current Literature.
The Portfolio (July): The Life of Velasquez. By Walter Arm- strong. (Seeley and Co.)—Mr. Armstrong gives us in this number of the Portfolio a biography of Velasquez, intending......
Short Life Of Thomas Davis. By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.
(T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a volume of the "New Irish Library," and is a really brilliant sketch of a very striking personality. Thomas Davis was by birth an Irish Protestant,.......
Scottish Poetry Of The Eighteenth Century. Edited By...
Vol I. (William Hodge and Co., Glasgow.)—We have here in a handy, well-printed, and not too large book, the first volume of what promises to be a very comprehensive an.- thology......
The Magazines.
SKILLED observers infortu us that t he recent hot weather as exceedingly favourable to the prawns. It certainly has not been favourable to the magazines. Taken as a whole they......
The Hare. By The Rev. H. A. Macpherson And Others.
(Long- mans and Co.)—This is the first volume of the "Fur and Feather Series," appearing under the editorship of Mr. Alfred E. T. Watson, and designed, as the editor tells us in......
Mr. Gladstone In The Evening Of His Days. (westminster...
—This volume is a republication of papers which appeared in the journal from whose office it is now sent out. It is pleasant to read, for the subject is one in which all......
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