A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago. Selections From The Letters
of Eliza Southgate Bovine. With an Introduction by Clarence Cook. (Chapman and Hall.)—These letters show that Miss Southgate was a charming girl, clever, mirthful, and......
"good Form" In England. By An American. (appleton, New...
chief purpose of this volume is to explain the habits and customs at high life in England, "such being the society to which American ladies and gentlemen have the entrée," and......
We Have To Acknowledge The Seventh Volume (part 1) Of
The Encyclopedic Dictionary. (Cassell and Co.)—This part takes in from " tas " to " urbiculons." As far as we have examined, it supports the high character for thoroughness and......
Home Experiments In Science. By T. O'connor Sloane. (sampson
Low and Co.)—There can be no doubt that if the young devotee of science knew what exquisite and beautiful, yet simple, home experi- ments he could perform, he would be happy at......
British Birds. By W. Harcourt Bath. " The Young Collector."
(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A guide to British birds, their appearance, nests, and eggs. The descriptions are very slight indeed, and might have been well made more minute;......
One Hundred And One Methods Of Cooking Poultry. By Aunt
Chloe. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—A very useful and handy cookery guide, and one that is much wanted and will be much appreciated.—Dainties, English and Foreign. By Mrs. H. C.......
A Hundred Hymns. (religious Tract Society.)—the Editors...
at Home invited their readers some little time ago to vote for their favourite hymns. Three thousand five hundred replied to this invitation, and here we have the result of the......
A Step Aside. By Charlotte Dunning. (houghton, Mifflin,...
Boston and New York.)—This little story preaches in a way that is not less forcible because it is unobtrusive, the moral of the insidious influence of luxury and the craving for......
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