Have Now In This Closely Printed Volume Of More Than
five hundred pages, a report of the papers read and of the discussions which were thus originated. Among the readers of papers were Mr. Lloyd Jones, Sir Thomas Brassey, Miss......
Voice : Use And Stimulants. By Lennox Browne. (sampson Low
and Co.)—Mr. Lennox Browne has done for the vocalists what has been done by somebody else for the men of letters,—interrogated them as to their habits about stimulants and......
The Child's Geography Of England, With Introductory...
British Isles and Empire. By M. J. Barrington-Ward, MA., F.R.G.S., Worcester College, Oxford ; with Maps and numerous Illustrations. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—We think the title......
The Towers And Steeples Designed By Sir Christopher Wren. By
Andrew T. Taylor (B. T. Batsford.)—This little volume is a welcome tribute to the genius of the great architect of London. Some careful drawings of the London steeples and......
Current Literature.
The first place in the new number of the Scottish Review is given to a paper on " Disestablishment," by the Marquis of Lorne, whose recent utterances on this subject have drawn......
Macmillan's Foreign School Classics : Voltaire, Histoire...
Roi de Suede. Edited, with Historical and Grammatical Notes, by G. Eugene Fasnacht, Assistant-Master in Westminster School. (Macmillan and Co.)—There can be no doubt that......
Great Huntsman," As The Title-page Tells Us ; Yet, So
capricious and so transitory is fame, it is possible that some of our readers do not know what country he hunted. His reputation, then, was chiefly made in the Tedworth country......
Women Of The Day. By Frances Hays. (chatto And Windus.)—
Here is a very useful book of reference. Every reviewer should have it, if only to keep him from blundering about the ladies who write under the name of "Edwards." The book is......
Morning Grey. By "u. M." 3 Vols. (ward And Downey.)—the
novel opens with a very realistic description of a foreign boarding. school, a description which "G. M." must, we think, have drawn from personal experience. Two of the scholars......
Cruise Of The ' Alert ' In Patagonian And Polynesian
Waters. By Dr. R. W. Coppinger. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—In 1878 an expedition, under the command of Sir George Nares, was sent to survey the Straits of Magellan, and......
History Of The First West India Regiment. By A. B.
Ellis, Major, 1st West India Regiment. (Chapman and Hall.)—Military history does not, we fancy, appeal to a very wide circle of readers, but to those interested in such matters......
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