Medicine And Kindred Arts In The Plays Of Shakespeare. By
Dr. John Moyes. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Shakespeare's universality of knowledge is one characteristic, among many, which confounds his critics. He appears to have known......
The Washer Of The Ford. By Fiona Macleod. (patrick ,geddes,
Edinburgh.)—Our author has dived deep into the ancient Celtic legends, and she has given us some stirring and weird tales of Vikings and bloodshed generally. The early monks......
Current Literature.
The Critical Review has, under the editorship of the Bev. Professor Salmond, succeeded so well, that the publishers announce an increase in its size. Probably readers of, as......
Hygiene For Beginners. By Ernest Septimus Reynolds, M.d....
Co.)—Three years ago Dr. Reynolds wrote a small primer on hygiene for the use of higher-grade school children and for these who attended elementary lectures on the subject. That......
• Selections From Steele's Contributions To The "...
Introduction. and Notes, by L. E. Steele, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.) —Despite the contempt cast upon Steele by Macaulay, his genius in recent days has been fully recognised. He......
The World And A Han. By Z. Z. (w. Heinemann.)—the
literature, or so-called literature, which "Z. Z." affects is of this kind. He takes for his subject some casual person and describes . what he thinks and does. There is nothing......
Ford Madox Brown,
FORD MADOX BROWN was born in 1821 and died in 1893. He is usually classed with the Preraphaelite brethren, though, as a matter of fact, he was never a member of that fraternity.......
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