The National Portrait Gallery. (cassell, Petter, And...
before us with no preface, date, or editor's name, and without saying whether it is the first of a series or complete in itself. We believe, however, that it has been published......
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CHRISTMAS ROOKS. Sketches from an Artist's Portfolio. By Sydney P. Hall. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)--After the monotonous series of outline illus- trations wo have had in......
The North-west Passage By Land, Being The Narrative Of An
Expedition from the Atlantio to the Pacific. By Viscount Milton, F.R.G.S., and W. B. Cheadle, M.A. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.)— This is a new and cheap edition of a book of......
Memoirs Of Celebrated Etonians. By J. Homage Jesse. 2 Vols.
(Bentley.)—This book will doubtless have, and in a sense deserves to have, a certain success. Old Etonians will be glad to have in a con- venient and shapely form the......
The Dawn Of Life. By J. W. Dawson. Ll.d. (hodder
and Stoughton.)—About 1858 the American Geological Survey, in examining the Laurentian rocks of Canada, which lie at the base of the Azoic division, came upon a marble with......
The Squire's Legacy. By Mary Cecil Hay. (hurst And...
As we shall recommend our readers to read this novel for themselves, we shall not do them the ill-service or the author the injustice of describing the plot at length. There is......
The Wreckers. By Rosa Mackenzie Kettle. (james...
new edition, " author's edition," of an exciting tale of adventure, which boys will read with eagerness, and will thoroughly enjoy. It is by an authoress who certainly succeeds......