The "oxford Graduate" Who Gives Us A Prose Translation Of
Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics (Rivingtons), does his work fairly well, but not with the uniform good taste and judgment which we expect in a prose translation. We take an......
The Purpose Of God In The Creation Of Man (edmonston
and Douglas) is a posthumous fragment of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, part of an unfinished work which he had in hand at the time of his death, and published by his express......
Mr. Freeman's History Of The Saracens.* The Republication...
popular form of these Lectures may be taken as an experiment towards supplying a want which is already considerable, and must in the nature of things become still greater. Ever......
Reminiscences Of America In 1869. By Two Englishmen....
book contains the experiences of two observers, favourably disposed to the country and the people which they visited, but not blind to their faults. It is worth reading, and, as......
Current Literature.
The Jews : their Past, Present, and Future. By J. Alexander. (Partridge.)—The author, who bears a name well known among Christianized Jews, gives us here in a small compass an......
Rural And City Life; Or, The Fortunes Of The Stubble
Family. By "Old Boomerang." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This story is a strange mixture of the comic, the pious, and the sensational. The more quiet scenes, where the author contents......
The Nations Around, By A. Seery (macmillan), Is A Volume
of a series which we have frequently had occasion to mention with great pleasure, the "Sunday Library." By the "Nations Around" are meant the neighbours more or less close to......
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