Public Men And Pretty Women. By Flora Dawson. Two Volumes.
(Richard Bentley.)—This is a very clever book. The object of the fair writer clearly is to show how very amusing a work may be made by making it perfectly silly. This design is......
About In The World. By The Author Of "the Gentle
Life." (Samp- son Low, Son, and Marston.)—Another volume of the same sort of essays as "Tangled Talk," but very inferior. Where "Tangled Talk" is paradoxical "About in the......
A Gold Currency For India. By Lieutenant-general Sir W. R.
Mansfield, K.C.B. (John Murray.)—An essay on so obscure and diffi- cult a branch of political economy by so distinguished a soldier will naturally attract attention, and,......
Dr. Richardson. Illustrated. Second Edition. (longman And...
pleasure in noticing—the character of the work will not per- mit us to do more—this splendid volume. It appeals to so small a section of the public that it is impossible for us......
Tangled Talk: An Essayist's Holiday. (alexander Strahan...
is a very good specimen of a kind of book which is very popular at present. It is just .what it represents itself to be, "talk "—that is to say, an intelligent man has written......
Our Objections To Mr. Page's "introductory Text-books" As...
for nothing but to give people a mere smattering of sciences which must be studied in details to be profitable. This objection does not apply to his advanced text-books. Here......
Selections From Calcutta Gazettes Le The Years 1784 To 1798.
By W. S. Seton-Karr, C.S., President of the Record Commission. (Longman and Co.)—The Calcutta Gazette was disinterred by the commission over which Mr. Karr presided. It seems to......
Outlines Of Modern Farming. By Robert Scott Burn. Volume...
Cattle, Sheep, and Horses. (Virtue Brothers and Co.)—The value of Mr. Burn's outlines, which really contain a tolerably copious treatment of the topics of which they speak, is......
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