Life Of Sir W. Siemens. By W. Pole, F.r.s. (john
Murray.)— The early life of Sir W. Siemens was a somewhat harsh struggle with those difficulties that always beset inventors. But those troubles seemed to have disappeared on......
St. Veda's. By Annie S. - Swan. (oliphant, Anderson, And...
is one of the most romantic stories which Miss Swan has written, and we think, too, one of her best. If her style sometimes verges on the commonplace, she can always be......
Luz Benigna : The History Of Orange Street Chapel. By
Richard W. Tree. (W. B. Whittingham.)—Orange Street Chapel (the Temple of Leicester Fields) was opened for worship for exiled Huguenots on April 15th, 1693. The congregation......
Artistic Japan. Conducted By S. Bing. (sampson Low And Co.)
—The six monthly numbers bound in this handsome cover have doubtless already attracted the notice of the lovers of Japanese art. It is hardly necessary to say much about the......
Theories Of Some Geologists. He Is, Indeed, Very Scornful...
"this magnificent pile of conjectures," and points out that the advocates of glacial action had to bring in the Deluge after all. He himself has to bring in the ice, after his......
Western China : A .tourney To The Great Buddhist Centre
of Mount Omei. By the Rev. Virgil Hart. (Ticknor and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a well-written and very interesting book. The author started from Hankow, and went by way of......
Haw They Lived In Hampton. By Edward Everett Hale, D.d.
(J. S. Smith, Boston, U.S.A.)—We do not quite clearly see from Dr. Hale's preface whether this "study of practical Christianity applied in the manufacture of woollens" is......
Great Thoughts For Little Thinkers. By Lucia T. Ames. (g.
P. Putn.am's Sons.)—This may be described, though the descrip- tion does not pretend to be exact, as a sort of cosmogony and universal history put into language that children......
Who Is The White Pasha ? (james Nisbet And Co.)—many
of our readers will remember the startling intelligence that appeared last June in the papers to the effect that a White Pasha, with an all-conquering army, was said to be......
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