(longmans.)—here Are More Than A Hundred Maps,...
history (the relations of European kingdoms to other countries) from the middle of the fourth century A.D. For all this number, the volume is a quarto of the smallest size, with......
A Treatise On Future Naval Battles. By Admiral Sir George
Elliot, K.C.B. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Torpedoes, rams, armour, guns, et hoc genus °rune, constitute the subject on which Admiral Elliot writes. He illustrates his theories and......
The Story Of My Life. By J. Marion Sims, M.d.
Edited by his Son. (Appleton and Co., New York.)—Dr. Sims was born in South Carolina in 1813, and died in his seventieth year. Meanwhile, he had achieved a great reputation as a......
The Real Shelley : New Views Of The Poet's Life.
By John Cordy Jeaffreson. 2 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We willingly give Mr. Jeaffreson credit for a good purpose in this attack upon Shelley and his biographers; but we cannot......
Gibbon's Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. With Notes
by Dean /Allman. 2 vols. (Ward and Lock.)—These are two stout octavo volumes of more than a thousand pages each. They will bring what is not only one of the most learned, but......