Arthur; Or, A Knight Of Our Own Day. By The
Author of 'Alice Godolphin." 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—One of the penalties that wait on great creations is to be found in the miserable imitations which they call forth. The......
The Statesman's Year-book For The Year 1876. By Frederick...
Thirteenth Annual Publication. (Macmillan and Co.)—The unceasing pains which Mr. Martin takes to make his Year-Book more accurate and complete deserve the amplest......
Ida Craven. By H. M. Cadell. 2 Vols. (henry S.
King and Co.)— Novelists are often told that they ought not to terminate their stories with marriage, which is indeed the beginning rather than the ending of real life. The......
Beoks.—selections From Ovid, In Elegiac Verse, With Notes...
use. By R. W. Taylor. (Rivingtons.)—It is almost needless to say that we have no fault to find with Mr. Taylor's scholarship. Nor does ho fail in what an accomplished scholar......
A Family Tree. By Albany De Fonblanque. 3 Vols. (bentley.)—
A story cut into two parts by an interval of more than two centuries must be managed with unusual skill to be successful. Mr. de Fon- blanque is ingenious. "The Roots of It" and......
Tyrol And The Tyrolese. By W. A. Baillie Grohman....
This is a book such as the public seldom has the opportunity of reading, such indeed as a necessarily rare combination of circumstances can alone produce. Mr. Grohman is......
The Lancashire Library. By Lieutenant-colonel Henry...
Warrington, Percival Pearse.)—This is "a bibliographical account of books on Topography, Biography, History, Science, and Miscellaneous Literature relating to the Comity......