Recollections Of A Private Soldier In The Army Of The
Potomac. By Frank Wilkeeon. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Here is an "eye-opener" indeed ! The history of the war, "thus far written," says Mr. Wilke. son, "has been the work of......
Chapters From Famly Chests, By Edward Wahord, M.a. 2 Vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—It must not be supposed that we have in these volumes any of the results of the search which the Commissioners have been making into family records. Pretty......
Th. Panama Canal, By L C. Rodrigues, Ll.b. (sampson Low
and Co.) should be read—we do not say believed—by all who are in- terested in one of the greatest engineering enterprises of the present or of any time. In the end of 1879, Mr.......
A Few Minor Poets.*
MISS Names verses bear the unmistakable stamp of sincerity. Her own life is shut between the covers of her book. Its domi- nant chords are sad ones. She has lost the old paths,......
Current Literature.
Verses of a Prose Writer. By James Ashcroft Noble. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh.)—A critic cannot do better than accept the estimate of the verses which may be said to be implied in......
The Throne Of Eloquence (hodder And Stoughton) Is One Of
the most satisfactory performances of that indefatigable book-maker, the late Mr. Paxton Hood. It is a collection of facts and opinions on great preachers, ancient and modern,......
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