Mamas Ward And Co.'s Christmas And New-year Cards,...
pretty harbingers of Christmas, with their graceful designs of birds and flowers and quaint little children, are before us again, and seem to us even prettier and more ingenious......
The Philosophy Of Laughter And Smiling. By George Vasey....
Burns.)---Mr. Vasey, condemning laughter, promotes it. How can we help laughing when he says, "If people become studious and intelligent (which all human beings ought to......
A Scotch Wooing. By J. C. Ayrton. 2 Vols. (henry
S. King and Co.)— This is a spirited story, reminding us, and intended to remind us, of "North and South." Arundel Fielding goes down to a Scotch manu- facturing town to be the......
Wild Mike And His Rana. By The Author Of "misunderstood."
/Richard Bentley.)—This is a very pretty little tale, evidently intended to obtain additional aid for the Victoria Hospital for Children, aid apparently richly deserved. The......
Lady Louise. By Kathleen Isabella Clarges. 3 Vols....
—Miss Clarges produces incidents well-worn already in the service of fiction, and does not contrive to give them any novelty by her method of treatment. A girl is deceived by a......
Air, And Its Relations To Life. By Walter Noel Hartley,
F.C.S. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Although scientific books have been issuing from the press in large numbers during the last few years, ranging over all the sciences and of......
Fair, Litt Not False. 3 Vols. By Evelyn Campbell. (samuel
Tinsley.)—We have been frequently reminded in reading these volumes of the long, gossipy letters, not generally of the most intelligent sort, that young ladies in their teens......
Spiders And Flies. By Mrs. Hartley. 2 Vols. (chapman And
Hall.) —The spiders, or rather the spider, in this story, is one Margery Doveton, better known as Miss Barlow's niece; the flies are, we might almost say, the human race, at all......
The Indian Civil Service. By A. C. Tupp, B.c.s. (r.
W. Brydges.) —This excellent little volume contains in a compact form all the facts and figures, and most of the arguments, necessary to a thorough com- prehension of the......
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