Current Literature.
Whistle-Binkic ; or, the Piper of the Party. Being a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle. 2 vols. (David Robertson, Glasgow.)—We are glad to see at length so admirable a......
The Lawyer's Daughter. 3 Vols. By Frank Trollope....
reader knows pretty well what he may expect to find when the scene of a novel is laid in Venice, in the seventeenth century. Unscrupu- lous nobles, adventurers of every degree......
Three Books On German Socialism.* M. Kaufmann Has Chosen A
very opportune time for issuing the second edition of his book on Socialism. It is founded on the larger work of Schaffie, and occasionally M. Kaufmann has been content to......
Heat. By Dr. Lardner And B. Loewy. (crosby Lockwood And
Co.) —Standard classic works on science are almost an impossibility. No matter how apparently correct they may ho, so rapid is the progress of science, that some new discovery......
Poets Of America. By W. J. Linton. (bell And Sons.)—"
Selections from One Hundred American Poets, from 1776 to 1876" is the further description of his work which the editor supplies upon his title-page. One hundred poets in a......
And Useful A Life As Mr. Smee's Deserved A Memorial.
Without attaining to a first rank in science, yet he probably did a work for the popularising of scientific knowledge that has not often been surpassed. His remark- able......
Life And Adventures Of An Unfortunate Author. By Himself....
Tinsley.)—This is supposed to be the autobiography of an author who fails in the great ambition of his life, and htrving staked everything on the chance, commits suicide. It is......
Fashion Then And Now. By Lord William Pitt Lennox. 2
vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—A veteran writer who remembers the "0. P." riots, and was apparently able to form an opinion about the behaviour of the audience, if the word "audience......
A Manual Of Rules, Tables, And Data. By D. K.
Clarke, C.E. (Mackie and Son).—A very handy and reliable book of reference for mechanical engineers, containing tables of strength of materials and constructions, weights and......
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