Roderick Hudson. By Henry James, Junior. (boston, U.s.,...
Osgood ; London, Triibner.)—American novels have mostly something characteristic about them. The personages are distinctive, though it often happens that their distinctiveness......
Some Of The Magazines.
• TizE Magazines are very good this month, each one containing some paper which either contributes a little to the sum of human knowledge, or makes the number for itself worth......
The Soldier Of Fortune. A Tragedy In Five Acts. By
J. Leicester Warren. (Smith and Elder.)—The author of "Philoctetes" will always have a claim to attention, but it is impossible for a critic, with even the most favourable......
Christ Our King. By The Rev. W. H. Pinnock. (bell
and Sons.)— Dr. Pinnock is well known as the author of some very useful text-books of history, sacred and secular. We cannot see that this volume is more than a manual on an......
Current Literature.
The Portfolio. March, 1876. (Seeley and Co.)—With the exception of an engraving from M. Ronsselet's " India and its Native Princes," the illustrations to this month's number are......
Copley's Life And Paintings. By Augustus T. Perkins....
and Co.)—Relatives are not usually the beat biographers. They bask in the brilliant rays of their distinguished kinsman, and if they can add to that brilliance, they benefit by......
Animal Parasites And Messmates. By J. P. Van Benoden. (henry
S. King and Co.)—We suppose the duties of an executioner, however revolting to the uninitiated, have a certain interest almost scientific to him, which renders nil any......
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