A Catechism Without Questions; Or, Elementary Instruction...
Revealed Religion. By Edward Higginson. (Whitfield, Green, and Son.)—As a teacher of many years' experience, Mr. Higginson objects to books arranged in formal questions and more......
Lrene's Repentance. By Christian Eyro. Two Vols. (hurst...
is one of those domestic stories which are very good in every respect, but very irritating. The author is merciless to both heroine and reader. Irene is a girl of nineteen,......
A Golden Heart. By Tom Hood. Three Vols. (tinsley.)—this...
is also irritating, but it is not also good. It is a compound of melodrama, farce, sensational novel, police report, workhouse revelations, and poetic justice. Mr. Tom Hood has......
The Last Crusader. A Poem In Four Cantos. (saunders And
Otley.) —The author of this string of rhyme spells "poesy," "courtesy," "chivalry," "minstrelsy," and all other similar words, " poesie," "courtosie," "chivalrie," "......
The Complete Works Of Horace. Edited By The Rev. J.
E. Tonga. (Longmans.)—With a patriotism which must seem laudable to an Eton man, Mr. Yonge has sent forth this edition of Horace to take away the reproach of idleness which......
The English Archoologist's Handbook. By Henry Godwin,...
could but quote the table of contents of this volume, we should testify more abundantly to its value than we can by praising its completeness. In a short compass it gives a......
Ornithology And Odlogy Of New England. By Edward A. Samneb3.
(Boston : Nichols and Noyes ; London : Low, Son, and Marston.)—A. handsome, well printed, and well illustrated work, which does credit to its American writer and its American......
Thoughts On Reading The Bible. By Homo. (h. K. Lewis.)—one
of those collections of Biblical eccentricity which seem written for the express purpose of amusing the scoffers. A man who argues that there ought to be no paid local ministry......
Up And Down The London Streets. By Mark Lemon. (chapman
and Hall.) —The chapters which compose this book appeared in London Society, a fact from which it may be inferred that they are light and gossipy in their tone, and that their......
The Spirit Disembodied. By Herbert Broughton. (edinburgh...
much thought in this book, some of the arguments are good, and most of the analogies are telling. Its object is to prove that the soul exists independently of the body ; that......
Chambers's Encyclopfedia. Vol. Ix. (w. And R....
this volume, so far as we have examined them, are correct, brief, and to the point; they are illustrated with small woodcuts, and the maps which are given for each country are......
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