6 JANUARY 1883, page 31

Abu Telfan ; Or, The Return From The Mountains Of

the Moon, a novel, by Wilhelm Raabe, translated from the German by Sofia Delffs (Chapman and Hall), is introduced with a considerable flourish of trumpets by the translator as......

Mr. Aloodc, The Author Of "the Spanish Brothers," Has Just

pub- lished two works—The Czar (Nelsen) and The Roman Students (Unwin)—which, from their peculiar character—their bringing history to the aid of Evangelical religion—should make......

An Englishman's Views On Questions Of The Day In Victoria,

by C. J. Rowe (Triibner and Co.), may be thoroughly recommended as a compact little handbook of the various questions that at present press for solution in our leading......

In Stories Of Old Renown (blackie And Son), We Have

that now veteran literary caterer for the young, Mr. Ascott R. Hope, retelling such old tales as "Ogler the Dane," "Patient Griselda," "Guy of Warwick," and " Genevave of......

The Steam-engine And Its Inventors. By R. L. Galloway. (mac-

millan and Co.)—Here we have the story of the steam-engine ones more told, and told carefully and clearly. Mr. Galloway does not take us back beyond the seventeenth century, but......

The Larch : A Practical Treatise On Its Culture And

General Manage- ment. By C. Y. Miohie. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—This is a really valuable book, and an interesting one also. It is clearly the outcome of much practical......

Mises Postry.—the Legend Of St. Olaf's Kirk. By George...

ton. (Houghton and Co., Boston ; Triibner and Co., London.)—In this booklet we have a narrative in verse, founded on a Scandinavian legend. The author names "Prior's Ancient......