Playing Trades, By Heraclitus Grey (cassell And Co.), Is One
of the most amusing—not to the grown-up, we mean, but to the young— and therefore one of the most genuine, children's books that we have seen for a long time. The children, who......
Field Flowers. By Shirley Hibbard. (groombridge.)—this Is...
little manual, by a writer whose competence for his task is too well known to need our testimonial. Mr. Hibbard arranges the flowers according to the months in which they are......
Lady Weckkrburn's Wish. By James Grant. 3 Vols....
Grant calla his novel "a story of the Crimea." We wish the description were a little more applicable than it is. This is the sort of thing that we should think, remembering that......
God: Conferences By The Rev. Pere Lacordaire. (chapman...
—This is the sequel to a former volume on Jesus Christ," which we noticed at some length at the time of its appearance, and is, like that, a series of "conferences," delivered......
The Wars Of Succession In Portugal And Spain. By William
Bollaert. 2 vols. (Stanford.)—There can be no doubt that the civil wars which troubled the Peninsula during the years 1826-40 have a very considera- ble political importance.......
The Sketch Of The Life Of Charles Brocky, By Norman
Wilkinson (Hamilton, Adam; and Co.), is a tribute of friendship to the memory of an artist who was capable of rather than attained high excellence. Brocky was born in Hungary in......
The Alan With The Iron Mask. By Marius Tapia. Translated
by H. Vizetelley. (Smith and Elder.)—" The Man with the Iron Mask" is a subject as inexhaustible as Junius. There are about as many different theories concerning him, with one......
The Cruise Of The Kate. By E. E. Middleton....
is one of those books of adventure of which Mr. Macgregor's journals are the typical specimens. "The Kate" seems to be one of those yachts, if the term may be allowed, built to......
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