Wanted, A Father. By Francis Savage. 3 Vols. (tinsley...
—Here is a plot strangely made up of a number of curious threads and so made up as to puzzle a reader who has not time to spend on disentangling it. There is a will with each a......
The Anglican Pulpit Of To-day. (hodder And...
biographies and specimen sermons of forty " distinguished preachers of the Church of England." Among the forty are seventeen Bishops (two of them, Drs. Fraser and Woodford, now......
Of Entertaining Matter, Certainly Not All "new," And...
all "true," but making some quite tolerable reading. It strikes us that the author is not very profoundly acquainted with the subjects of which he treats. No one who knew much......
Britain That Has So Many "memorials And Things Of Fame"
as Edin- burgh. It owes muds to its unequalled position, the charm of which even Scottish builders have been unable to destroy, and it owes much also to the concentration of......
Military Manners And Customs. By James Anson Farrar....
Windus.)—Mr. Farrer has collected here a vast number of curious and interesting facts. We do not dispute the general conclusion which he would draw from them, viz., that war is......
Poems. By W. Walsh= How. (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co.)
—The Bishop of Bedford's occasional verses are of a kind which no one can read without feeling respect, we may say, regard, for the writer. They are the expression of a genuine......
Messrs. Smith And Elder Send Us The First Volume Of
the "Pocket Edition" of Pendennis, of which the second and concluding volume will appear on July 26th. The paper, print, and general get up of the volume are equal to that of......
The Mark Twain Birthday-book. (remington And Co.)—this...
regarded as a practical joke. You ask a friend, as the custom in each cases is, to write his name on the blank page, and look for something appropriate under the day ; and he......
Censorship Of English Style, And Performs The Duties Of His
office with no little self-importance, and, we may add, in a somewhat arbitrary fashion. We do not wish to defend all the Revisers' English (it is the Revised Version of the Old......
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