Life Of Sir Walter Scott. By The Rev. G. Gilfillan.
(Oliphant.)— Though we cannot always accept Mr. Gilffilan's literary estimates, thinking it, for instance, extravagant even in a Scotch critic to say that Scott was "the......
Our Duty To Animals. By Mrs. Charles Bray. (partridge.)—...
excellent little manual, by the author of Physiology for Schools, consisting of simple, bat carefully arranged lessons, "intended to help the teacher to give such regular and......
Monk Of Monk's . Own. By Logh Knight. 3 Vols. (sampson
Low and Co.)—Of course the simplest reader understands, and is meant by the author to understand, that the Captain Monk who succeeds just in the nick of time to the inheritance......
Children Rescued From Pauperism, By W. Anderson (menzies,...
is an account of the "Boarding-out System in Scotland," and has the interest which attaches to one of the most hopeful experiments. of the day. Mr. Anderson has seen the system......
Dr. Wainwright's Patient. By Edmund Yates. 3 Vols....
Hall.)—Mr. Yates continues to produce with an industry which may be compared to that of the spider, and his work, if the substance of it be somewhat thin, is, at all events,......
Dr. Foakes Writes A Little Book, Gout And Rheumatic Gout
(Philip and Son), to prove that these diseases ought to be treated not with mercury or colchicum, drugs which, he says, do nothing more than palliate, not without leaving bad......
The Crowr And Its Advisers. By Alex. C. Ewald. (blackwood.)—
This volume consists of four lectures dealing with the several subjects ef "The Queen," "The Ministry," The House of Lords," "The Corn. mons," and delivered, the author tells......
Askaros Kassis The Copt. By Edwin De Leon. (chapman And
Hall.) —M. De Leon, who has been United States' Consul-General for Egypt, describes his book as "A Romance of Modern Egypt," and it shows every sign of careful observation and......
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