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Life at Puget Sound, 1865-1881. By Caroline C. Leighton. (Lee and Shepard, Boston, U.S.; Triibner and Co., London.)—We wish that Mrs. Leighton had bethought her of giving a map......
The World Beyond The Esterelles. By A. W. Buckland. 2
vole. (Rivington and Co.)—In the first part of the work Mr. Bnckland gives us some noteworthy facts concerning Cannes, Hybres, Grasse, Nice, and other towns of the Riviera which......
Godfrey Helstone. By Georgina M. Craik. 3 Vols....
characters to whom Miss Craik introduces us in these volumes seem somewhat colourless and insipid. It may be said that they are all the more true to nature ; but it is difficult......
Memorials Of John Flint South. Collected By The Rev. Charles
Seth Feltoe, M.A. (John Murray.)—The writer of these Memorials (a nephew of their subject) has executed his grateful task with skill and taste. The career of the distinguished......
Savage Sritnetia. By Clive Phillips-wolley, F.r.g.s....
sportsmen rarely interest us ; the " kill, kill!" motive to which they are due being not only unsympathetic, but repulsive. This consideration apart, and with the farther ex-......
Mrs. Willoughby's Octave. By Mrs. Marshall. (seeley And...
" octave" means a family of eight children (Mrs. Marshall, like Miss Yonge, seems to like a large canvass to work upon); and the family is used gracefully, and not made, as such......
Railway Rates And Radical Rule. By J. Buckingham Pope....
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a very pretty alliteration, and seems to show that if Mr. Pope had lived some thousand years ago, when assonance was essential to metre, he might......
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