The Deneis Of Virgil. By John Benson Rose. (derrell And
Son.)— We noticed Mr. Rose's translations of Ovid's Fasti and Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics a few weeks ago. The words of that notice might almost be repeated on the present......
The North-west Peninsula Of Iceland Being The Journal Of A
Tour i■ Iceland in the Spring and Summer of 1862. By C. W. Shepherd, MA., F.Z.S. (Longmans.)—In spite of the difficulties and hardships of his tour, Mr. Shepherd has written a......
Current Literature.
The St. Stephen's Chronicle. Nos. 9 and 10, March 30 and April 7. (Bentley.)—We aro sorry to see that one-half of the special use of the St. Stephen's Chronicle is to be lost by......
The Sorrows Of Hypsipyle. By Thomas Ashe. (bell And Daldy.)—
Mr. Ache has succeeded where so many have failed in catching the spirit of the Greek drama. There is not here the same manifest striving after a certain effect as detracts from......
A Dictionary Of Photography. Edited By Thomas Sutton,...
George Dawson, M.A. (Sampson Low.)—The various processes, which are more familiar to us from sundry door-posts in Regent Street than from dark rooms smelling of collodion, are......
Prose Works Of John Greenleaf Whittier. Two Vols....
nor and Fields ; London, Trubner.)—Remembering Mr. Whittier as a peek we are rather disappointed with him as a prose writer. His sketches of Bunyan, Andrew Marvell, Richard......
Germany From The Baltic To The Adriatic; Or Prussia,...
and Venetia, with Reference to the Late War. By Captain Spencer. (Routlodge.) We cannot say that Captain Spencer's present book is any improve- ment on the one we had occasion......
Early Americans.*
THE last number of the Edinburgh Review contains a paper which might suggest a new field of labour, either to the Geographical, the Archaeological, or the Ethnological......
The Wife's Litany, And Other Pieces In Verse. By John
Rutter Chorley. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Chorley tells us that the chief and the most remarkable poem in this volume was composed at the instance of an unusually vivid dream. We......
Man : A Story Of Light And Darkness. By The
Rev. Henry Greene. (W. Macintosh.)—We can hardly think that Mr. Greene has done alto- gether wisely in giving this work to the press. He tells us that in tardy compliance with......
Zaida's Nursery Notebook, For The Use Of Mothers. By A.
L. 0. E. (Nelson and Sons.)-1 pretty and pleasant little semi-story about chil- dren, their ways and their tempers. The most exciting incident is a fight between the mother who......
Sunshine And Showers. A Compendium Of Popular...
Steinmetz. (Reeve and Co.)—The weather is certainly the most popular of all subjects, but the general conversation upon it is not of a scientific character. Mr. Steinmetz has......
Pity. Painted By H. Le Jenne. Engraved By Henry Lemon.—this
is the Art Union engraving for 1867, and a very pretty plate it is. It repre- sents three girls trying to coax to them a poor little bird, which is starving in the snow. The......
The Law Of Libe4 As Affecting The Newspaper Press, With
Proposed Amendments. (E. Marlborough and Co.)—The principal contents of this pamphlet are accounts of several libel cases, many of them turning on fair reports of public......
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