8 JULY 1865, page 23

Jersey Legends In Verse. By Thomas Williams. (saunders,...

Co.)—This gentleman has occupied his leisure in turning the legends. of the guide-books into doggrel,—but even doggrel should have metro and rhyme, and here is a specimen of M.......

Passages Of A Working Life. By Charles Knight. Vol. Iii.

(Brad- bury and Evans.)—This volume Mr. Knight calls the third epoch. It commences in the summer of 1844, and comes down to the present time, a pleasant, gossiping narrative of......

N His Other Qualifications For Writing This Work The Author

did not the eater aptitude for literary composition. A careful topographical r _ description of an island like Crete would not in any circumstances be very attractive to the......