Current Literature.
Political Economy for Beginners. By Millicent Garrett Fawcett. (Macmillan).—Mrs. Fawcett's book is intended as " an assistance to those who are desirous of introducing the study......
We Girls: A Some Story. By The Author Of " The
Gayworthys." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a story of American life, told in a lively, unaffected way, and sufficiently amusing, though its native collo- quialism—not in the......
The Birth And Childhood Of Our Lord: Meditations....
twelve photographs. (Seeleys.)—This volume—we know not by whose fault—seems to have strayed from its proper company of Christmas, books. It is not inappropriate, however, to any......
The Decline Of The Roman Republic. By George Long. Vol.
III. (Bell and Daldy.)—No one can help regretting that Mr. Long's literary faults are so 'obvious and, we may add, so irritating, that they provoke a cen- sure which is......
Miracles, Past And Present. By W. 'mountford. (boston,...
and Osgood ; Trhbner.)—The noticeable feature in Mr. Mountford's argument is the use that he makes of the phenomena, or supposed phe- nomena, of spiritualism. "To gainsay the......
Papers On The Great Pyramid. By St. John V. Day.
(Edmonstonn and Douglas.)—We read not a little of this book without gaining any but the faintest idea of what it was about, but seeing quite-plainly that it intended to be very......
Contemporary Annals Of Rome. (richardson.)—this Is The...
a promised series. It consists of two parts, " The Centenary of St. Peter" and "The Montana Campaign," that is to say, a great "function'' and a glorious secular triumph. We are......
Sketches On The Wing. By G. De M. Soares. (stanford.)—mr.
Soares:- appears to travel far and wide when he is what he is pleased to call " on the wing." He begins with short flights to Paris, Strasbourg, and Baden ; and then takes a......
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