Egypt And Iceland In The Year 1874. By Bayard Taylor.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Bayard Taylor is always an agreeable writer, though he seldom has anything novel to say. In the present instance, his work has less novelty than usual,......
The Second Wife. From The German Of E. Marlitt. By
Annie Wood. (Bentley.)—This is a bright, spirited novel, much more interesting than most German works of fiction, which indeed are generally distasteful to us, with their......
The Dead Cities Of The Zuyder Zee. Translated From The
French of M. Henri Havard by Annie Wood. (Bentley.)—When the original of this work was published, at the beginning of this year, we called the attention of our readers to the......
Below The Salt : A Novel. By Lady Wood. (chapman
and Hall.)—Lady Wood sometimes runs into extravagance in her plots, and allows her style to drift into carelessness ; but her stories always interest us, and we never fail to......
Sherborne ; Or, The House Of The Four Ways. By
Edward Heneage Daring. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is an honest, outspoken, earnest, and uncompromising Catholic noveL If we were not averse, on principle, to the conduct of......
The Races Of The Pacific Slates. By Hubert Rowe Bancroft.
Volume .IV. Antiquities. (Longmans.)—Mr. Bancroft deals in his own exhaus- tive fashion with a large subject,—a subject, however, which to the world at large is not of the......
Broad Church. By Dr. Maurice Davies. 3 Vols. (tinsley...
—Dr. Davies's novel is clever and readable, but often distinctly offensive , to good taste. The interest of the book depends mainly upon the views of matters theological and......
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