Scenes From The Silent World. By Francis Scougal....
Sons.)—In spite of some unhappy peculiarities of style (we read, for instance, of a " magisterial cranium," instead of a " magistrate's head "), Mr. Scougal has written a......
A Family Tree, And Other Stories. By Brander Matthews....
and Co.)—Mr. Brander Matthews is a master of the art of short-story writing. His style is admirably, crisp, correct, and dainty, without affectation, and he allots the......
Up And Down : Sketches Of Travel. By Gilbert S.
Macquoid. (Ward and Downey.)—This is about the thinnest travel-book we have ever read. It is in reality some feeble letterpress in explana- tion of twenty-nine charming......
Theology And Piety : Alike Free. By " An Old Student."
(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The " Old Student of Manchester New College" has republished in this volume a number of addresses, &c., delivered from time to time during the last......
England And South Africa. By Edward J. Gibbs, M.a. (long-
mans.)—" In these pages I have endeavoured to give an impartial account of the progress of Great Britain in South Africa." It is thus that Mr. Gibbs begins his preface. He goes......
Northern ' Agin. By Gottleib Schumacher. (alex. P....
is a volume published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The district described is part of that anciently known as Decapolis. It lies to the south-east of the......
Sir John Franklin, The True Secret Of The Discovery Of
his Fate: a " Revelation." By Henry Skewes. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This book contains the account of a matter on which we do not pretend to form any judgment—briefly it is this,......
Daniels Cortis : A Novel. From The Italian Of Antonio
Fogazzaro. By Stephen Louis Simeon. (Remington and Co.)—It is not easy to create sympathy for Italian fiction. The obstacle is not so much the foreignness of the " ways " of the......
Through David's Realm. By Edward Staats De Grote...
Low and Co.)—An American tourist's impressions of the Holy Land could hardly fail to present some novel points of view to English readers, and the much-prefixed Mr. Tompkins of......
Boy : Word-sketches Of A Child's Life. By Helen Milman.
(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This is a story written on lines some- what resembling those of "Misunderstood." " Boy " is an enfant incompris, if we take that phrase without the......
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