A Buried Secret. A Tale. (j. C. Hotten.)—the Author Of
this tale has buried his secret with great success. He has done the same with his bad characters. He had better have followed suit with his book.......
Pigeons, Their Structure, Varieties, Habits, And...
Tegetmeier, F.G.S. (George Routledge and Sons, the Broadway, Ludgate Hill.)—The name of the author of the Standard of Excellence is a sufficient guarantee for the efficiency of......
Country Towns, And The Place They Fill In Modern...
(London: Bell and Daldy.)—It appears from the census of 1861 that there are in England and Wales some two hundred and twenty towns whose populations range between five thousand......
Capital Punishment. A Tale Of The Nineteenth Century....
Otley.)-11 a man buys Church property, turns a ruin into a smok- ing-room, and goes to church only once on Sunday, the inevitable result will be that his son will be hanged as a......
English Heraldry. By Charles Boutell. (cassell, Patter,...
do not know how many persons of the present day will endorse Mr. Boutell's proposition that some knowledge of heraldry ought, in consequence of its singular and comprehensive......
Lyrics And Bucolics. Translated By T. Herbert Noyes....
C. Hotten.)—Like Mr. Conington, Mr. Noyes thinks that the English heroic line of ten syllables can be seldom made to comprise all that may be said in a hexameter containing on......
The Young Earl. 2 Vols. (saunders And Otley.) — Manifestly
a youthful work, the author of which wants to play at novel-writing. From first to last everything is according to the Cocker of fiction, and neither wo, nor the author, nor the......
Practice With Science: A Series Of Agricultural Papers....
(Long- mans.)—The title of this volume inadequately describes its contents. The agricultural papers in it are of a high class, and will, no doubt, enlighten those to whom they......
Founded Upon Holman Hunt's Picture Of "our Saviour In The
Temple." Mr. Tenner tells us that he is well aware of the discouraging circum- stance "that no kind of composition is so little attractive to the general public now as that......
Telly's Title-page, Is "told In Detail For The First Time,
chiefly by the aid of original letters, official and other documents, and contemporary memoirs recently made public," has been related more than once in a shorter form, and has......
Current Literature.
The North British Review. March. (Edmonston and Douglas ,—The present number of the North British is not as good as vaml. The subjects are not in themselves attractive, and......
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