Messrs. Blackwood Publish A Row In The Zoo; Or, The
Hole in the Eastern Wall, a feeble imitation of "Dame Europa's School." The only noticeable thing about it is the quarter from which it comes. It main- tains the principle that......
Black Spirits And White. By Frances Eleanor Trollope. 3...
(Bentley.)—The first half of the first volume of this novel gives a pro- mise which the remainder of it does not fulfil. It is not that the power of the writer fails, or that......
We Have Received From Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. A
box of ex- quisitely drawn and coloured Easter Cards. If Easter cards be institu- tions which conduce in any way to the feelings appropriate to the time of year,—which we......
Two Lilies. By Julia Kavanagh. 3 Vols. (hurst And Blackett.)
—Normandy is, so to speak, Miss Julia Kavanagh's "native heath ;" she is nowhere else so much at home, and we have always reason to be glad when she returns from it. The "Two......
The Meg Of Animals. By E. Lankester, M.d., F.a.s. (hardwicke
and Bogne.)—The substance of the first part of this book was delivered in the form of lectures at the South Kensington Museum, where a ' splendid collection of illustrations was......
Zoology For Students. By O. Carter Blake, D.s. (daldy,...
and Co.)—This handbook treats principally of the comparative anatomy of the different genera and species, and a student would derive ne profit from it who is not tolerably well......
Elsa; Or, Fiction And Fact. By Corney Welper. 3 Vols.
(Tinsley Brothers.)—It was Mr. Welper's intention to present his readers with a simple narrative, quite free from any sensational element. We cannot say that he has quite......
One Golden Summer. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. 3 Vols. (hurst
and Blackett.)—On the one hundred-and-seventy-eighth page of the third volume of this book we find a chapter, entitled," Beginning of my Golden Summer." Surely this is trifling......
The Emigrant And Sportsman In Canada. By John J. Rowan.
(Stanford.)—Mr. Rowan speaks plainly to the young gentlemen who fancy that belonging to a good family, riding and shooting well, and having a taste for country pursuits, are......
One Of The Best, And As Far As We Have
been able to judge by experience, are of the most successful school-books of the present day, is the In- troduction to Greek Prose Composition, with Exercises, by A. Sidgwick......
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