A Month In The Midlands. By G. Bower. (rotten.) —this
is a story pictorially told of fox-hunting and love, ending as orthodox stories should, with marriage at least imminent. Hunting sketches remind us inevitably of a pencil which......
The Nobility Of Life. Edited By L. Valentine....
graces and virtues of human character are illustrated by drawings, coloured and otherwise, and by passages in prose and verse selected from well-known authors. The book has a......
The Hudson From The Wilderness To The Sea, By Benson
J. Leasing (Virtue), will be remembered as having appeared about eight years ago in the Art Journal. The handsome volume before us has been revised by the author, whose preface......
Pictures From Nature. By Mary Hewitt. (routledge.)—the...
pleasantly, as indeed we should expect her to do, on the sights and sounds of the various months. This part of the book is as good as it can be ; Mary Howitt has, from of old, a......
Queer Discourses On Queer Proverbs. By Old Merry. (hodder...
Stoughton.)—This little book is sufficiently sensible, and not unamnsing. "Old Merry" is a kindly person, who preaches sermons, which his audience, having always in their hands......
The Language Of Flowers. By Robert Tye% M.a....
title does not prepossess one ; some of the silliest books that human fatuity has constructed have borne it. Mr. Tyaa's volume must not be confounded with such rubbish. He talks......
He Selects Choice Bits Of Description Of Scenery, Life, And
manners from his experiences of African travel, and will succeed, we should imagine, in suiting the taste of his readers. Certainly the young people nowa- days have a great deal......
Two Great Families Of Animals Of Which The Cat And
the dog are the best known representatives. In connection with the cat, we have descrip- tions of the habits, &c., of the lion, the tiger, the leopard, &c. The dog has fewer......
Gems Of English Art. With Illustrative Texts By F. T.
Palgrave. (Routledge.)—This volume commends itself by the admirable decoration of the binding. Within it contains twenty-four pictures, being copies of well-known works of......
It Always Exactly Correct. It Is Not True, For Instance,
that tobacco will not grow except in a hot country. It might be grown in Ireland, were it not for the Excise. And it is grown, we believe, to a very great extent in Germany.......
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