Adventures Of An Orchid - Hunter. By Albert Millican....
reader who is not repulsed by the flippancy of the opening pages of this volume, will find himself rewarded for his intrepidity. It contains a very interesting and. graphic......
The Magazine.
THE Magazines this month are too full of the elections. Perhaps that was unavoidable, but the result is wearisome. For example, the Nineteenth Century leads off with eight......
England Under The Coalition. By P. W. Clayden. (t. Fisher
Clayden has written under this title a gigantic pamphlet, running to nearly six hundred pages. Such a book seems to be a mistake, quIte apart from any misstatements and......
The Muses' Library : The Poems Of Andrew Marvell. Edited
by G. A. Aitken. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—One might be almost inclined to believe that there were two Marvells,—the poet who wrote "The Coronet," "The Nymph and her Fawn," and the......
The Faiths Of The Peoples. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy. 2
vols. (Ward and Downey.)—The reader will scarcely expect from Mr. Molloy any exact or comprehensive view of the very large subject which he has here undertaken to deal with. But......
A French Eton. By Matthew Arnold. (macmillan )—in 1859, Mr.
Matthew Arnold, visiting France to examine the conditions of primary education in that country, took the opportunity of seeing something of its secondary schools. In 3864, he......
The Cathedral Churches Of England And Wales, By W. J.
Lof tie (E. Stanford), describes thirty-six cathedrals, illustrating his description in twenty-nine instances with plans. It is a pity that he did not make the number of the......
Current Literature.
Mothers in Council (Wells Gardner and Co.) is a well got-up magazine, edited by Miss Yonge, and started a year and a half ago in connection with the Mothers' Union, and intended......
Messrs. Eyre And Spottiswoode Publish A New Edition Of The
Variorum Reference Bible. The editors are, for the Old Testament, Professors Cheyne and Driver ; for the New, Mr. R. L. Clarke and Professor Sanday ; and for the Apocrypha (a......
The Life Of George Mason, 1725 - 1792. By Kate Mason...
2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) —George Mason was a Virginian planter who took a prominent part in American affairs during the War of Independence and the settlement which......
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