Saint Athanasius. By The Rev. R. Wheeler Bush....
volume is a useful addition to the series of "The Fathers for English Readers." There is a certain mystery about Athanasius which Mr. Bush does not solve, and which, indeed, it......
Gold Are Not Given In The Same Detailed Way ;
but there is an amazing list of gold-mining companies. One passage ought to be quoted:—" It must be borne in mind the Gold Fields are in no sense a poor man's diggings. I would......
The Fragments Of The Persica Of Ktesias. Edited, With...
tion and Notes, by John Gilmore, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— " Scarcely a sentence of Ktesias' text has come down to us ver- batim," says the editor in his general introduction.......
The Diseases Of The Bible. By Sir Risdon Bennett, M.d.
(Re- ligious Tract Society.)—This is a volume of the series entitled "By-Paths of Religious Knowledge." The greater part of it is naturally occupied by the subject of leprosy.......
The Book Of Noodles : Stories Of Simpletons. By W.
A. Clouston. (Elliot Stock.)—" My aim," says Mr. Clouston, "has been not only to compile an amusing story book, but to illustrate to some extent the migrations of popular......
Two Volumes Of The "great Writers" Series, Edited By...
Eric S. Robertson, M.A. (Walter Scott), are Life of Heinrich Heine, by William Sharp, and Life of John Stuart Hill, by W. L. Courtney. What could be done for Heine by a......
Homer : Iliad, Books Xiii.-xxiv. With Notes By D. B.
Monro, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—It is not necessary, in view of the reputation which Mr. Monro has made for himself as an Homeric scholar, to do more than mention that in this......
Count Tolstoi As Novelist And Thinker. By Charles Edward...
(Triibner and Co.)—We are glad to read what a careful and intelligent student of Count Tolstors works has to say about them, though we cannot allow that he has convinced or even......
Great Men At Ray. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. 2
vols. (Remington and Co.).—These volumes belong to the class of manufactured books. Mr. Dyer brings together without much discrimination anecdotes of famous men gathered from......
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