Reading It Again, And As A Whole, We Retain Our
old preference. There is something very smart about all that concern the hero's adventures in Hungary, and nothing better than the sketch of the prince-bagman, or bagman-prince,......
Twice Refused. By Charles E. Stirling. 2 Vols....
is fairly up to the mark in cleverness and interest. There are some well-conseived and well-described scones in it ; the characters are dis- tinct, and the reader, though-ho......
Louis De Ripple. By Darlow Foster. (freeman.)—we Have...
say against this tale, but this, that it failed to make any impression upon us, except, indeed, to wonder whether there are yet, or indeed ever have been, schools of a......
Two Years Before The Mast. By Richard Henry Dana, Jun.
(Sampson Low.)—We are very glad to see an "author's edition" of a very old favourite. Some of our readers may, perhaps, need to be reminded that some thirty years ago Mr. Dana,......
Honore' De Balzac. Edited By Henri Van Lama....
a very serviceable book of extracts from a great writer whom no student of French should neglect, but whose works are certainly not to be read in their entirety by any one not......
Current Literature.
"It may be," the writer says in a note to an essay on the "2,300 days of Daniel," "that the millennium commenced with the confinement and restraint of the dragon's power and......
The Origin* Of The Seasons. By Samuel Mossman....
Mossman starts from the fact that the inclination of the earth's axis produces the variations of the seasons. What he adds to it of his own is that "the world has all along......
Handy-book Of The Law Relative To Masters, Workmen,...
Apprentices. By Alexander Macdonald. (Mackenzie.)—It may be doubted whether a large-sized octavo of more than fear hundred pages can be properly called a "handy-book." Mr.......
Possibly It Is Somewhat Childish In Its Style At First.
Such a reflec- tion as this, a propos of the Druid sacrifices, "Row sad those poor parents must have felt when their children were led out to suffer a cruel death!" is trite and......
Our Admiral's Flag Abroad: The Cruise Of Admiral D. G.
Farragut in the Flagship Franklin. By J. E. Montgomery, A.M. (New York : Putnam. London : Sampson Low.)—One naturally compares this book with that which some time ago gave us......
Some Magazines.
PERHAPS the most instructive paper in any of the magazines this month has been contributed by Professor Seeley to Macmillan. It is the first of a series of papers upon "Roman......
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