The Sacrifice Of Education To Examination. Edited By...
(Williams and Norgate.)—Here are massed together some two hundred letters from "all sorts and conditions of men," edited, or rather collected, by Mr. Herbert, who adds a......
Bounds And Inftexicnto In Greek And Latin. By J. C.
King, M.A., and C. Cookson, MA. (The Clarendon Press.)—This book is of a kind so elaborate, and in its way technical, that we cannot pre- tend to do it justice in these columns.......
Unknown Switzerland. By Victor Tissot. Translated By Mrs....
and Stoughton.)—A pleasant book enough, and for the most part entertaining; yet absurdly misnamed, and as full of French conceit as an egg is full of meat. The "unknown......
The Freaks Of Lady Fortune. By May Crommelin. (hurst And
Blackett.)—At the opening of this story, the heroine, a regally beau- tiful farm-girl, is found picking bluebells for market in company with her young brother. To them enters a......
Marriage And Heredity : A View Of Psychological...
J. F. Nisbet. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Nisbet gives in his first chapter some curious facts to prove that, as he puts it, "there is not a single sentiment of the modern European......
Hints To Lady-travellers At Home And Abroad. By Miss...
Davidson. (Iliffe and Son.)—This is a useful kind of handbook, and readers with a sense of humour will also find it entertaining. The author observes that since so many women......
A Dictionary Of Heraldry. By Charles Norton Elvin, M.a....
and Co.)—This is a dictionary "of the terms met with in the Science [of Heraldry], with their appropriate illustrations." The plates are forty-six in number, each of full-page......
Three Men In A Boat. By Jerome K. Jerome. (j.
W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—This is an account of a boating journey on the Thames. Humour is always sought, and sometimes attained. We found the straining after humour, we must......
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