Complicated, And Yet Scarcely Rouses One Enough To Be At
the pains to. unravel it. Yet it is constructed with some skill ; there is ability too both in the drawing of character, and in the description of scenery. Still the interest......
The Sun.*
NUMEROUS and startling as are the revelations which modern science has made with regard to the functions and physical features of the Sun, no one can study Mr. Proctor's book......
From The Urdri. Lieutenant-colonel Osborne, Who Is...
Bhopal, adds a sketch of the history of the reigning family, one dis- tinguished, as many of our readers will remember, by groat services to our cause during the mutiny. The......
Fenton's Quest. By The Author Of " Lady Audley's Secret."
3 vols. (Ward, Lock and Tyler.)—We have always thought, and once or twice taken occasion to say, that 'sensationalism' is not by any means the worst fault of the modern novel,......
Current Literature.
Mr. J. H. Simpson prints. under the title of A New Crusade to put down lVars (Burns), a little pamphlet which he has contrived to make, or we should, perhaps, rather say, which......
The True Vine. By The Rev. Hugh Macmillan....
essays, to each of which is prefixed a sentence of our Lord's alle- gory of "The True Vine," Mr. Macmillan draws out one of tho "analo- gies of nature and grace," the likeness......