-lift Of Robert Gray, Bishop Of Capetown. Edited By...
the Rev. C. Gray. 2 vols. (Rivingtons.)—We do not propose to do more than briefly notice the appearance of this book. To deal with it in detail would be to discuss some of the......
Poems. By Herbert Martyne. (maclehose, Glasgow.)—mr....
his- best, though he does not succeed when he wishes to be comic. But the first and last pieces of his volume, the "Border- . Raid," in which he visits the homes and haunts of......
Before The Table. By J. S. Howson, D.d., Dean Of
Chester. (Mac- millan.)—The question of the celebrant's position probably does not admit of a complete solution, any more than does the problem of the quadrature of the circle.......
Throstlethwaite. By Susan Morley. 3 Vols. (henry S. King And
Co.)—This is a novel of more than average merit. It is to be highly praised for the moderation, the truly artistic moderation, with which both character and incident are......
Current Literature.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS. English Painters of the Georgian Era. (Sampson Low. Marston, and Co.)—It is a deplorable fact that the lives. development, and par- ticular merits of the great......
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles...
Household Edition. With Fifty-nine Illustrations by F. Barnard. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a good edition, in double columns, but in very largo, clear type, of one of Dickens's......
The Bible. (h. Frowde, 7 Paternoster Row.)—the Oxford...
Press has issued a very clearly-printed and strongly-bound reference Bible, in an unusually solid binding, with clasps. It contains both Old and New Testaments, is fitted with......
The Poets And Poetry Of Scotland. By James G. Wilson.
' (Mackie.) —This handsome volume of more than five hundred pages somewhat resembles in plan the " Aikin's British Poets" of our youth. The authors included are, however, more......
Honours Divided. By Morley Farrow. 3 Vols. (hurst And...
The author has three young ladies to provide for, and finds them suit- able husbands, and what is more, contrives that his readers should care a little about the finding of such......
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