10 DECEMBER 1864, Page 19

Good Words. Edited by N. Macleod, D.D. 1864.—The twelve monthly

numbers are now before us, bound up in purple cloth and gilt- edged, so as to make a very sightly volume. It contains the whole of Mrs. Wood's spirited story, Oswald Cray, Dean Alford's Letters from Abroad, and Mr. Isaac Taylor's Personal Recollections, besides a host of minor articles. The illustration; too, are capital. Mr. Millais's young lady at page 64 is, if Dr. Macleod will forgive us the levity, a duck. Good Words makes a handsome Christmas volume.