Wild And Weird Tales Of Imagination And Mystery. By Sir
Gilbert Campbell. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—These "Wild and Weird Tales" are truly terrible. Sir G. Campbell seems to have ransacked the most bloodcurdling folk-lore for his......
Mr. Bernard Bosanquet For Rendering It Possible For English
readers to obtain a definite idea of what the Socialists themselves can hardly define,—the aim of Socialism. Dr. Schiiffie tells us that it took him years to familiarise himself......
Sporting Anecdotes. Edited By " Ellangowan." (hamilton,...
of these anecdotes we have seen before, but a great many are new, and if they have appeared in print before, have probably been lost. We should be grateful, therefore, to the......
En:in Pasha. By The Rev. H. W. Little. (virtue And
Co.)— Mr. Little writes a short and enthusiastic sketch of Emin Pasha's career down to the end of the " Emin Pasha Relief Expedition." It is always pleasant to read of a hero,......
Time And Tide. By Sir R. S. Ball. (s.p.c.k.)—the Movements
of the tide are among the most important facts which affect the economy of the earth ; hence there should be no lack of readers for Time and Tide. Tides themselves are so......
Year 1888. The "yorke Prize" Is Given, We Should Say,
to the best essay on "The Law of Property" in various ages and countries. Ireland was a singularly appropriate country to select, as of late years its "land tenure" has become a......
Modern Views Of Electricity. By 0. J. Lodge....
Lodge discusses, without the aid of mathematics, the attitude assumed by the philosophers of to-day towards elec- tricity. It is certainly a very readable book, and need not,......
Jenner And Vaccination. By Charles Creighton, M.d....
a medical retrospect of Jenner's discovery, and its history during the time, the best part of a century, which has elapsed since the first experiments. Dr. Creighton, of course,......
Travels In Dreamland. By Alfred C. Fryer. (sonnenschein.)...
has already obtained some reputation as a writer of fairy-tales, and it will be enhanced by this sprightly story of the adventures in Dreamland of a little boy of the name of......
A Dash Of Bitter. By Deane Hilton. (sonnenschein.)—the...
this story indicates sufficiently its nature, and for a temperance story it is fairly readable. It is the old tale,—tempta- tion withstood for some time, then the fall, and......
Glimpses Of Irish Industries. By J. Bowles - Daly. (ward...
Bowles-Daly takes up the cudgels on behalf of the Irish very vigorously,—too vigorously for the task in hand, and, we must also add, for good taste. He declares in his......
The Story Of A Tinder - Box. By C. Meymott Tidy. (s.p.c.k.)—
This is a capital little book for young people, who will learn with the history of the tinder-box a little chemistry and physics, at least such chemistry as belongs to it and......
Diseases Of Plants. By H. Marshall Ward. (s.p.c.k.)—mr....
such well-known plant-diseases as the " rust " of wheat, " ergot " of rye, "smut" of corn, and others only too well known to farmers and gardeners, very clearly, so that every......
When Mother Was Little. By S. P. Yorke. (unwin.) — The...
of the story told in this book lies more in the form in which it appears than in anything else. The children to whom it is narrated are supposed to live in a country-house, with......
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