The Westminster Review. April, 1864. (trubner And...
seems to get heavier with every successive number. The lightest of the seven articles which make up the number is a summary of the Histoire de la Littdrature Anglaise, by M.......
A Handbook Of Rhetoric. By The Rev. Professor Barry. (w.
B. Kelly.)—This little book is founded on the works of Stirling and Holmes, once popular class-books. Mr. Barry has made out of them a capital treatise, rich in examples, the......
Lurline ; A Burlesque Melodrama. By V. A. C. A.
A cold - blooded attempt to bring burlesques into disrepute by showing how very dull and meaningless they may be, but it is over-done. The puns are really too few.......
Homes Without Hands. By The Rev. J. G. Wood, M.a.,
F .L.S. (Longman and Co.)—There are few branches of natural history more curious than that which treats of the artificial habitations of animals, and no one is more competent to......
The London Diocesan Calendar And Clergy List. 1864. (john H.
and James Parker.)—To "Parker's Church Calendar," an almanack of which the merits are notorious, is added a second part containing a complete clerical and charitable directory......
The Journal Of Sacred Literature And Biblical Record....
and Norgate.) —This quarterly keeps up its character. Strictly orthodox in tone, its articles are moderate and solid, and the reader is posted carefully in the latest news about......
Eastern Europe And Western Asia, Political And Social...
Russia, Greece, and Syria, in 1861-2-3. By Henry Arthur Tilley. (Longman and Co.)—The author seems to have travelled under the auspices of the Russian Government, sailing about......
The Pearl Of The Rhone And Other Poems. By William
Duthie. (Robert Hardwicke.)—Mr. Duthie was, we think, scarcely wise to correct and re-write these poems, originally youthful productions. Not that they are even in a literary......
The Popular Science Review. January, 1864. Edited By...
M.D. (Robert Hardwicke.)—This quarterly maintains its character for solid excellence. Professor Gamgee gives an alarming paper on the microscopic worms which pass from measly......
Volume Of Selections Will Be Vindicated By The...
the public, for it is distinguished both by the discrimination which has governed the selections and by the taste with which they are arranged. The " Old English Gardens" are......
Can Write Readable English And Conceive Characters Who,...
are still possible, like Ross Ingestre and his sister; but he has used his power to frame a wild story of frauds, and personation, and the machi- nations of secret societies,......
The National Review. April, 1864. (chapman And Hall.)—the...
of the quarter is a very brilliant but perhaps rather para- doxical paper on Sterne and Thackeray. There was, the writer thinks, this fundamental resemblance between the two......
Sake Of The Bearing Which His Remarks Have Upon The
American struggle. It is a thoughtful little book rather overfull of epigrams. The writer's main idea is that the man of the South surrounded by the riches of nature is tempted......
The Anthropological Review. February, 1864. (trubner And...
contains two elaborate articles:-1. On the human hair as a race-character, by Dr. Pruner-Bey ; and 2. A review of Dr. von Pott's recent work on myths of the origin of man and......
Axel. A Poem, Translated From The Swedish. By The Rev.
R. Muckles- ton, M.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—The subject of this poem is a rather common-place romance about a young lady who followed her Swedish lover to the war in man's clothes,......
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