The Silver Trout. By Sir Randal H. Roberts, Bart. (w.
H. Allen.)—This is a collection of slight—very slight—stories and papers reprinted from the Field and Land and Water. The stories are not remarkably entertaining, and the papers......
There Are Some Good General Articles In The New Number
of the Sunday at Home,—in particular, Mr. Richard Heath's "Paris at the Time of the Reformation," and "Marguerite Leroy : a Leaf from the Journal of a French Pastor," and "The......
The Scots' Magazine For April Is Sufficiently Scotch, And...
too clerical. We notice as eminently readable, articles on Robert Blair, one of the two poets of Athelstaneford, "Scotch Music," and "Reminis- cences of a orthern......
An Unknown Country. By The Author Of "john Halifax, Gentle-
man." (Macmillan.)—We have in this volume some of the latest as SOL118 of the wisest and kindliest writing of Mrs. Craik. She went in the late summer of 1885 with some young......
In The New Number Of The Woman's World, Princess Christian
explains, with admirable lucidity, the aims and aspirations of the British Nurses' Association, which seeks to unite into something like a Mutual Protection Society the 15,000......
Bishop Forbes : A Memoir. By The Rev. Donald J.
Mackey. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The late Bishop Forbes, as a Scotch Tractarian who, even when a Bishop, got into what he himself terms "a sad mesa" owing to his views, and......
There Is A Want Of Life About The Sunday Magazine
for April, although the serial stories by Dr. George MacDonald and Mr. Farjeon are readable, and Archdeacon Farrar is suiting his papers on the Catacombs admirably to the......
Current Literature.
The most notable paper in the April number of the Century Magazine is an article by Mr. Henry James on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, which, though somewhat heavily embroidered with smart......
Life Of Robert Burns. By John Stuart Blackie. (walter...
—This is, on the whole, the soberest, most sensible, though perhaps least original, book that emeritus Professor Blackie has ever written. There is in it comparatively little of......
Commons And Common Fields. By T. E. &mutton. (cambridge...
Press.)—This is an essay written for the Yorke Prize at Cambridge in 1886, and contains a great display of learning without much enlightenment on the early history of common......
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