Burick. By Annie Grant. (swan Sonnenschein And Co.)—this...
not easy reading. The very form which has been given to it is unattractive ; for it is only very good matter that can stand close printing. A phantasmagoria of unfamiliar......
A Daughter Of The Gods. By Pane Stanley. 2 Vols.
(Hann and Blaokett.)—This is a painful story, a wife concealing an error, though a comparatively innocent error, of her youth, and hunted by the jealousy of her husband's......
Souvenirs Of Military Life In Algeria. By The Comte De
Castellane. Translated by Margaret Josephine Lovett. 2 vols. (Remington and Co.)—The Count Caatellane went out as a volunteer to Algeria when he was seventeen, served as a......
The New Liberal Programme. Edited By Andrew Reid. (swan...
and Co.)—Mr. Andrew Reid pursues his task of col- lecting opinions, a task not without usefulness, though the harvest which he gathers in is of very various quality and value.......
John Westacott. By James Baker. 3 Vole. (sampson Low And
Co.)—There are some effective pictures of life in this novel ; the first scene, for instance, where we see Lieschen in her home, the solitary inn in the Bavarian highlands, and......
Old Salem. By Eleanor Putnam. Edited By Arlo Bates....
Mifflin, and Co., Boston and New York.)—There are in this volume five sketches of persons and places in Salem, one of the typical homes of New England life. The subjects of......
A Wizard's Wanderings From China To Peru. By John Watkins
Holden. (Dean and Son.)—There is very little of the " wizard " iu these wanderings. If Mr. Holden would tell us how he astonished the natives by his tricks, there might be......
English Metre. By J. B. Mayor, M.a. (c. J. Clay
and Son.)— Professor Mayor has treated with characteristic learning and ex- haustiveness a very difficult subject. To redoes to an accurate [system of scansion verse that is......
Memoir Of Captain Dalton, Me Lob. By Charles Dalton. (w.
H. Allen and Co.)—Captain Dalton was a gallant soldier who served in the early campaigns of Clive. His one special distinction was his defence of Trichinopoly, 1752-54. He left......
British Cage Birds. By R. L. Wallace. (l. Upcott Gill.)--an
exhaustive book on a subject which interests many readers. There must be hundreds of thousands of English people who keep birds in cages, and are for the most part sadly......
A Handbook Of Biblical Difficulties. Edited By The Rev. R.
Tuck, B.A. (Elliot Stook.)—Mr. Tack gives a great number of what he calla—and, on the whole, rightly calls—" reasonable solutions of perplexing things in Sacred Scripture." The......
Clare Of Clarsemede. By Charles Gibbon. 3 Vole. (sampson Low
and Co.)—Mr. Gibbon has two manners, that of the ordinary novel, and that of the historical romance. It is in the second that he succeeds, we think, the better. His tales never......
Ways And Means In A Devonshire Village. By E. Crawys
Sharland. (S.P.C.K.)—Thie little book is intended for readings at "mothers' meetings." It (=taint; the experiences of a good old woman and careful manager, one Betsy Critchett,......
Situation Which The Author Conceives Is A Fine One. James
Douglas, delicate, refined, and cultured, and Robert Halliday, a sturdy son of the plough who has educated and raised himself, are both bent on missionary work, and both love......
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