Translations Of English Poetry Into Latin Verse. By...
Newman. (Trubner.)—The most curious feature in these translations is that they "were not made for exercise or amusement, but as part of a practical scheme for instruction in......
Current Literature.
The Golden Sheaf: Poems contributed by Living Authors. Edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. (HonIston and Wright)—We are not told with what object this selection has been......
The World As Dynamical And Immaterial; And The Nature Of
Perception. By R. S. Wyld. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.)—For a philosopher Mr. Wyld writes with remarkable clearness, and those who have entered at all into the questions with......
Clarendon Press Series : Chaucer. Edited By R. Morris....
Press.)—This selectionfrom the "morning star of song" comprises the pro- logue to the " Canterbury Tales," the " Knightes Tale," and the " Nonno Prestos Tale." Mr. Morris has......
Spiritual Sacrifice And Holy Communion. Seven Sermons. By...
Kingsbury. (Macmillan.)—The tone of these sermons is high, but Mr. Kingsbury takes care to avoid all appearances of distinctively Roman doctrine. In the fifth sermon he marks......
Sermons On Subjects Of The Day. By Distinguished Catholic...
and Theologians. (Dublin : Kelly.)—These sermons were delivered at the second plenary Council of Baltimore, in October, 1866, the largest council ever held in Christendom since......
Lake Victoria; A Narrative Of Explorations In Search Of The
Source of the Nile, compiled from the Memoirs of Captains Speke and Grant. By George C. Swayne. (Blackwood.)—We presume that Mr. Swayne's object in compiling this work has been......
Life Of William 'wilberforce. By His Son, Samuel...
Lord Bishop of Oxford. Revised and condensed from the original edition. (Murray.)—The "original edition" was published in 1838; there were five volumes of the Life, and they......
Sabina. By Lady Wood. 3 Vols. (chapman And Hall.)—it Is
diffi- cult to convey our impressions of this novel in a few lines, yet it does not deserve a long review. Indeed, whatever space we devote to it, we are perplexed by its want......
The States Of The River Plate.*
IT has been justly remarked that there is no sadder sight under heaven than that of men, able and willing to work, standing idle because no man will hire them. And yet the......
Bound To Please. By Henry Spicer. 2 Vols. (tinsley.)—that Is
hardly the view we should take of the contents of these volumes. The stories and sketches collected in them have appeared, so Mr. Spicer informs us, in All the Year Round, and......
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