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The Life and Teachings of Confucius. By James Legge, D.D. (Triibner.)—This volume, the work of a well known Chinese scholar, gives us a most complete and, as far as we can......
His Case With Considerable Ingenuity. Among The Points...
makes are these. The apologetic tone in which St. Patrick speaks of himself, and the account which he gives of the opposition offered by his- parents to his resolution to......
The White Rose. By Whyte Melville. 3 Vols. (chapman And
Hall.)— Mr. Whyte Melville is a pleasant and agreeable writer, he is never too sen- sational in his incidents or extravagant in his delineation of character. But in the present......
Lichens From The Old Rock, By Jessie M. Saxby (nimmo)
; and historical Pictures from the Cumpagna of Rome, by John Wynniatt Grant (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.), are two volumes of verse which we do not care to criticize in detail. We......
Alice Rushton, And Other Poems. By Francis Reynolds....
is a volume of carefully written verse. The anther shows culture, good taste, tenderness, and purity of feeling, and yet we cannot say that ho has made out a claim to be called......
Through Flood And Flame. 3 Vols. (bontley.)—this Is A Highly
original and vigorous novel, although the promise of the first volume is• not quite sustained through the second and third. Tho typos of character in Flood and Flame, albeit not......
The Railway Service. By W. F. Mills. (adams: Fleet Street.)—
This volume contains a number of papers, some of them republished from the Railway Times, on the various institutions for mutual help which have been established among the......
Educational Reformers.*
Mn. QUICK has studied his subject so thoroughly, and he writes upon it so cleverly, as to deserve a better fate than he seems to anticipate, and a better treatment than he has......
The Idolatress, And Other Poems. By James Wills, D.d....
These poems belong to what may he called the pre-Tennysonian period. The writer, though not by any means an imitator, recalls the style of Walter Savage Lander and of Croly. The......
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