Lillian's Child. By M. H. L. (sampson Low And Co.)—the
spelling of "Lilian" with two "11's" is not the only unusual feature of this novel. It is all about very grand people, but that is not remarkable. Novelists of a certain class......
Penelope's Web : A Novel. By Louis Witbred. (samuel...
This is a foolish story, evidently by a female writer, notwithstanding the masculine nom de plume. It is one of the numerous silly novels, written in the first person singular......
A Concordance To The Works Of Alexander Pope. By Edwin
Abbott. With an Introduction by Edwin A. Abbott, D.D. (Chapman and Hall.) —This is a book for which no other notice is possible but an expression of respect and gratitude. Men......
Fisher's History Of Landholding.*
THE question of the relation between landlord and tenant, and of the former to the State, is assuming every year such increased importance, that any work bearing on the subject,......
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Sermons on the Sacraments. By Thomas Watson. With a Preface and Biographical Notice of the Author by the Rev. T. E. Bridgett. (Barns and Oates.)—" The number of English Catholic......
The Death And Burial Of Alas : A Tragedy Of
Sophocles. By Lewis Campbell. (Blackwood.)—Professor Campbell's translation is faithful to the original, and ably executed. If the blank verse of the dialogue is better than the......