The Queen's Desire. By Hume Nisbet. (f. V. White.)—this Is
a tale of the Indian Mutiny, told with no little force, but certainly not intended virginibus puerisgue. The writer has some- thing to say for Nana Sahib, whom he thinks to have......
Rex Singleton. By Mrs. Lysaght. (wells Gardner, Darton,...
is an ambling sort of story, with the boy-hero of the familiar type, a shocking example in the shape of a tutor who drinks, an extraordinary recovery of long-lost parents, and......
Cabinet Portrait Gallery. Fourth Series. Photographs By...
Downey. (Cassell and Co.)—There is little to say about this volume, which carries on, without any diminution of merit or change of manner, an evidently successful series. The......
The History Of London. By Walter Besant. (longmans.)- Mr....
has put together in this little volume, of little more than two hundred pages, a great amount of valuable matter. It contains the substance of many a stout folio ; compressed......
Fergus Mctavish. By J. Macdonald Oxley. (hodder And...
Story of the Far North-West is a very interesting thing of its kind, written, it is evident, by one who knows something of the North-West (of Canada, it must be understood), in......
The Handwriting Of The Kings And Queens Of England. By
W. J. Hardy. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is a volume of curious and varied interest, of which, however, it is difficult to give our readers any adequate idea with the means......
The Story Of The Atlantic Telegraph. By H. M. Field.
(Gay and Bird.)—The story of the Atlantic cable has been told before, and there is nothing fresh in Mr. Field's account of the various cable- laying expeditions. It is well,......
The Man From Blankley's, And Other Sketches. By F. Anstey.
(Longmans.)—It is needless to praise these reprints from Punch. Everybody recognises, and is glad to recognise, Mr. Anstey's hand. The " Man from Blankley's" is not by any means......
Poets All. By John A. Bridges. (ward And Downey.)—this Is
a story of literary life, of a minor poet who is raised to eminence by a flattering critic, and degraded therefrom when the critic has other -views ; and of his successor, who,......
Dictionary Of Applied Chemistry. Vol. Iii. (0—z.) By T. E.
Thorpe. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Among the important materials in Professor Thorpe's third volume are oils, paints, petroleum, paraffin, pitch, potassium, pottery and......
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