The Californians. By Walter Fisher. (macmillan.)—this Is...
rhetorical book. It would hardly be true to say that we should have liked it better if it had possessed less of these qualities, but we may venture to assert that we should have......
As The Shadows Fall. By J. E. Maddock. 3 Vols.
(Samuel Tinsley.) —Mr. Maddock not unnaturally anticipates that it will be urged against him " that the plot of the story is improbable," and he pleads in defence, with singular......
In Quest Of A Creed (elliot Stock.)—this Little Book Deals
briefly and in a popular way, on the aide of belief, with the evidences of Christianity. Atheism, materialism, pantheism, and theism are all passed under review. The late Mr.......
An Unrequited Love: An Episode In The Life Of Beethoven.
By Ludwig Nohl. Translated by Annie Wood. (Bentley.)-About twenty years ago there were published some extracts from a young lady's diary relating to Beethoven—published, it will......
The Parvenu Family; Or, Phabe, Girl And Wife. By Percy
Fitz- gerald, 3 vole. (Bentley.)—It is not easy to see the purpose of this story. The real heroine of the story is neither one of the " Parvenu Family " nor Phoebe. It is the......
Current Literature.
The British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —An interesting essay on the "Letters of Julian"—the tone of which con- trasts very strongly with what a religions......
Curiosities Of Travel; Or, Glimpses Of Nature. By Charles...
Wilkins. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—In these two volumes the author has cleverlyput together various descriptions of some of the most remark- able phenomena of the earth. The......
We Have Before Us The Second Volume Of The Poets
and Poetry of Scot- land. By James Grant Wilson. (Blackie and Sons.)—It begins with Thomas Campbell and it ends with the Marquis of Lorne, and it con- tains extracts from the......
We Have To Acknowledge The Second Volume Of The Globe
(Wopcedia. Edited by John M. Rosa, LL.D. (Thomas C. Jack, Edinburgh.)—The volume includes from " CAN" down to the end of the letter "E." Its special claim is that there is no......
More Than A Million; Or, A Fight For A Fortune.
2 vols. (Daldy, Isbiater, and Co.)—Mr. Brown acquires a great fortune, and wishing to make it work mischief to mankind after his death, bequeaths it to John Smith, adding no......
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