Fantastic Stories. By Edward Yardley, Jun. (longman And...
these tales are not without wit ; but if they are to be regarded as fairy stories children do not appreciate satire, and if they are meant for the grown-up the volume is......
The Handy Guide For The Draper And Haberdasher. (f....
little volume full of shrewd and sensible remarks, such as retired men of business are much in the habit of enunciating, but though a little given to be over-didactic the author......
The Junior Clerk. A Tale Of City Life. By Edwin
Hodder. With a preface by W. E. Shipton, Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. Second Edition. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)— George Weston is a model young man,......
Its Best Side, As In George Eliot's Works, But Its
worst—dull, squalid, vicious, penurious. But forcible as is the picture of Bill Jennings and his family, and that of the Milkworts—the farmer and his wife who have risen from......
Au: Home And Garden. By Cuthbert W. Johnson F.l.-g.
Ridgway.ther anybody ever learns much freer very popular science may very &T-e.I.esigged,..but at al1.076nts Mr. Johnson gives t us in a pleasant form. It is not everybody who......
Education And School. By The Rev. Edward Thring, Head Master
of Uppingham School. (Macmillan and Co.)—A good defence of the public-school system, as it exists at Rugby, Marlborough, and, we do not doubt, Uppingham. But Mr. Thring quite......