Ancient Classics For English Readers. Edited By The Rev. W.
Lucas (Blackwood.)—We find ourselves fallen sadly behind in our notice of this excellent series of volumes. It has by this time, we trust, established its place among those for......
Congal : A Poem, In. Five Books. By Samuel Ferguson.
(Dublin Ponsonby. London : Dell and Daldy.)--Congal is constructed on the Irish herdic romance called "Thu Battle of Moira," this battle, which seems to be a genuine historical......
False Cards. By Hawley Smart. 3 Vols. (hurst And Blaokett.)—
This novel has all the liveliness and vigour which we have admired in Mr. Smart's previous works, notably in "Breesie Langton," the tale by which he is best known. And it has......
The Surgeon's Secret. By Sydney ,mostyn. (s. Tinsley.)—it...
to criticise a novel which relies for its interest on the skill with which the reader is mystified. Let us say briefly, then, that he is mystified very skilfully. He will......
The Light Green, No. 2. (cambridge : Metcalfe.)—here Are...
dozen parodies, which, even in this age fertile of good parodies, are worthy of note. The May Queen" is parodied in "The May Exam.," but the original is one which, though it......