Locke's Annual Register Of Births, Marriages, And Deaths....
"Births and Marriages." (Dickens and Evans.)—This is, we think, a new venture. " The births and marriages advertised through- out the United Kingdom" are given under dates (not......
The Forest Cantons Of Switzerland. By J. Sowerby....
interesting and useful little book, dealing with the four Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, and 17nterwalden, is a combination of guide-book, history, and constitutional......
Ups And Downs Of An Old Tar's Life. By "eclipse."
(Digby and Long )—The writer entered the Royal Navy in times of peace —he tells us that he was born in the Waterloo year—and saw a good deal of the world in such services as......
Dr. Bra.dshaw's " Chesterfield."*
LORD MAHorr's elaborate and hitherto standard edition of Chesterfield's Letters, published in 1845, has failed to satisfy Dr. Bradshaw, whose researches have enabled him to......
Slaves Of The Sawdust. By Amye Reade. (f. V. White
and Co.)—The "sawdust," which signifies the circus, cannot be held in fairness responsible for all the dreadful things that happen in this story. It did not make Leila's mother......
The Revisers' Greek Text. By The Rev. S. W. Whitney,
A.M. 2 yobs. (Silver, Burdett, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Whitney takes one by one the readings from which tbe Revisers translated, compares them with the textu3 receptus, an......
Ad Finem Est° Fidelis. By A. J. De Courey Leake.
(Eden Remington and Co.)—We may conjecture that Mr. Leake is one of the party which seeks to revive Jacobitism in the nineteenth century. "Tell me," he bursts out at the end of......
Current Literature.
Hungary and its People. By Louis Felbermann. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The author, though bearing a German name, expresses a strong devotion to what he speaks of as his......
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