A Manual Of The Alkali Trade. By John Lomas. (crosby
Lock- wood and Co.)—This is a work of thoroughly practical character. It discusses all the mechanical details, the planning and the working of a chemical factory devoted to the......
Plain English. By John Hollingshead. (ghetto And...
" as Mr. Hollingshead's "English" undoubtedly is, yet we are not quite sure of his meaning. Does he mean to say, without any reserve, that the business of the manager of a......
The Great Artists : Horace Vernet And Paul Delaroohe. By
.J. R. Rees. (S. Low and Co.)—Biographies of great artists *re not easy to write or to criticise. Some estimate of the true value of the works cf the several painters,......
Novels.—the Lady Resident. By Hamilton Page. 3 Vols....
is undoubtedly "a novel of the day," seeing that it is a story about the higher education of women. Whether "Mr. Hamilton Page" (a pseudonym, certainly veiling, we should say,......
Panhellenic Annual For The Year 1880. Edited By Socrates A.
Parasyrakes. (Williams and Norgate.)—This volume contains a calendar of the Greek Church, a chronicle of the important events in the War of Independence, in 1821-1830; an......
The Old Church Clock. By The Rev. R. Parkinson. Edited
by John Evans. (Abel Heywood and Son, Manchester.)—After an interval of twenty-seven years, we have a new edition of a book which achieved in its day considerable popularity.......
Heroes Of The Cross ; Or, Studies In The Biography
of Saints, Martyrs, and Christian Pioneers. By W. H. Davenport Adams. (Masters.)— There is something attractive in the scheme of Mr. Adams's book He brings together men and......
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