On The Banks Of The Ouse. By Emma Marshall. (seeley
and Co.) —This story is, we think, one of Mrs. Marshall's happiest efforts. The scene is laid in the little Bedfordshire town of Olney, about a hundred years ago. The poet......
We Have Received A Handsome Illustrated Edition Of The...
Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Chatto and Windus.)—The illustra- tions, executed in photogravure, are by George Wharton Edwards. They are naturally unequal in merit. Indeed,......
Mr. Mackenzie On Southern Africa.* Tuts Is The Most...
of the many important books that have been published on South Africa, since the native question there became a burning one. It is important as putting the special "case " of its......
Historic Girls. By E. S. Brooks. (g. P. Putnam's...
twelve stories (republished from the St. Nicholas Magasine) picture to as twelve heroines of the ancient and modern world, beginning with Zenobia of Palmyra, and ending with......
We Have Received A Final Volume, Containing Between Six And
seven hundred drawings, of John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, front the Collection of " dfr. Punch." (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)— They range over a considerable space......
A Flock Of Girls, And Their Friends. By Nora Perry.
(Ticknor and Co., Boston,II.8.A.)—We are not quite mire that Miss Perry's poetry, limited in range though it is, is not better than her prose. But there is a great deal of......
Happy Hunting-grounds. By W. Hamilton Gilson. (sampson...
Gilson, in this "tribute to the woods and fields," as he calls it, enlarges on the beauties of his native scenery as they seem in diverse seasons'. (It should be said that his......
The Vision Of Sir Loofa. By James Russell Lowell. (sampson
Low and Co.)—Sir Launfal was en early work of Mr. Lowell's, and some of bin admirers think that he has never surpassed it. Some of the best thoughts of the new time, which,......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. (Ward and Downey.)—There is a very agreeable air of reality in this hook which renders it of little or no consequence whether it is......
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