Volumes Without Feeling A Profound Respect For The Man Whose
life and work they describe. Fears entertained, possibly offence given, in high quarters prevented Dr. Hook from rising to that eminence in the Church which he might have been......
Rachel Oliver 3 Vols. (macmillan.)—this Is A Well...
a clever book, but it wants unity of purpose. Rachel is the unselfish daughter of a selfish father. We are introduced to her in her early childhood, and part with her, some......
Freda. By The Author Of " Mrs. Jerningham's Journal." 3
vols. (Bentley.)—We must apologise for the accidental delay which has retarded our notice of this most entertaining book. One good has come of it,—that Freda happened to come in......
Covert-side Sketches. By J. Nevill Fitt. (sampson Low And...
Mr. Fitt, who writes under the initials "H. H." in the Sporting Gazette has put together a volume which we may venture, though without' possessing any special acquaintance with......
Current Literature.
Fraser's Magazine for February gives us an interesting, but not striking, account of Bourbon, the mountain-peak rising out of the Indian Ocean, which the French have turned into......
Six Months In Ascension : An Unscientific Account Of A
Scientific Expedition. By Mrs. Gill. (Murray.)—Mr. Gill went to Ascension Island in 1877, under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, to observe the opposition of the......
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