English Trees And Tree-planting. By H. Ablett. (smith,...
Co.)—This book has been awaiting a brief notice for along time. There is, in fact, a difficulty in doing justice to works of this order. For we have here a large collection of......
Monaco. By John Poison. (elliot Stock.)—here The Reader...
all about this little principality, which has the last of the gaming-tables. There is just as much ruin wrought at Tattersall's if not at the great whist-playing Clubs as on the......
The Value Of Life. A Reply To "is Life Worth
Liuing ?" (G. P. Putnam, New York.)—This book might as well, better, perhaps, have been called "A Defence of Positivism." The value of life, it appears, depends mainly on the......
The Encyclopccdic Dictionary. Vol. I., Part Ii. By Robert...
M.A. (Cassell, Patter, Galpin, and (io.)—This second part carries us on a little way into the letter C. The work promises to be one of great usefulness, being as convenient a......
Old Rome. With Maps And Illustrations. By K. Burn. (g.
Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Burn's splendid but costly work, Rome and the Campagna, is within the reach of only a fortunate few ; bat here we have an admirable handbook, based on the......
The World Behind The Scenes. By Percy Fitzgerald. (ghetto...
Winclus.)—This book is a bad specimen of a bad class. Of late years the reaction from an unjust prejudice has produced an undiscrimi- nating worship of things theatrical. From......
The Threiplands Of Pingask. By Robert Chambers. (w. And B.
Chambers.)—Mr. Robert Chambers wrote this memoir as far back as the year 1853; but its publication was delayed until last year. It gives a very curious picture of a Jacobite......
Modern Meteorology. (stanford.)—the Six Lectures Which...
were delivered in the autumn of 1878, under the auspices of the Meteorological Society, with the view of popularising the results as yet, attained by the science of weather......
Burns At Mossgiel. By William Jolly. (a. Gardner,...
Jolly describes Mossgiel, the farmhouse where the poet was born, and its surroundings, distinguishing between what the place was, and what it is. He also gives as the......
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