Incidents Of Foreign Sport And Travel. By Colonel...
and Hall.)—Colonel Pollock is one of the few born sportsmen who can write, and thus enable others to participate in the keen delights of hunting. As far as we can make out, his......
Manners, Customs, And Observances. By Leopold Wagner....
to know on what principle of selection Mr. Leopold Wagner constructed this compilation of commonplaces. We say commonplaces because, though many of these manners and customs are......
Elizabeth Glen, M.b. By Annie S. Swan. (hutchinson And...
indefatigable author of " Aldersyde," who by this time must have written almost as much as Mrs. Oliphant or Miss Braddon, has found in the career of a lady doctor a thoroughly......
Gun, Rifle, And Hound. By " Snaffle." Illustrated....
Hall.)—These reminiscences are of the usual sporting type, though they include an unusual variety of shooting and hunting experiences. The writer seems to have tried his hand at......
Norwegian Fairy - Tales. Translated By Abel Heywood From...
P. Chr. Asbjornsen and Jurgen Moe. (George Routledge and Co.)—We should say that these tales have very various derivations, and some of them have a curious want of proportion,......
The Borderland Of Czar And Kaiser. By Poulteney Bigelow....
by F. Remington. (Gay and Bird.)—Mr. Bigelow's knowledge of the German military system is comprehensive and minute, and he describes with a thoroughly appreciative and kindly......
The Speech Of Cicero In Defence Of Cluentius Translated Into
English. By W. Peterson, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan and Co.)— Whether the use of translations by schoolboys and undergraduates should be permitted is a question we have often heard......
Sea And Land. By N. S. Shaler. Illustrated. (smith, Elder,
and Co.)—Professor Shaler devotes himself more particularly to the configuration of coasts and the action of the tide on cliffs and beaches. The action of the sea is patent......
Household Tales, With Other Traditional Remains. By...
M.A. (David Nutt.)—The counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham, were laid under contribution for these tales, and Derbyshire, as may be imagined, supplies the greater......
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