23 JULY 1892, page 23

Mother Goose.*

THIS is a very long title-page for a not very commendable book. According to the preface, to which in these cases one turns as much as to the matter, the first collection of......

The Development Of Navies.* Tills Is Not Nearly So Ambitious

a work as that by Captain Mahan, of the United States Navy, on The Influence of Sea- Power upon History, which made so great an impression on that section of the reading public......

The Verney Papers.*

THE period of the Civil War is specially rich in memoirs and collections of family papers ; but in spite of this, it is safe to say that nothing more elucidates the epoch of the......