Delia Bacon : A Biographical Sketch. (sampson Low And Co.)—
An American book, though bearing the name of an English pub- lisher. If any one is curious to read the history of the person who set on foot. the strange craze which makes......
A Modern Martyr. By Sophie Kaffey. (chapman And Hall.) —the
moral of this novel is a new version of the ancient proverb anent hasty marriage. The wife does not love her husband, but too late repents,—that is, falls in love with him. The......
The Story Of The Old Catholic And Kindred Movements, By
A. M. E. Scarth (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), is largely made up of quotations, but is none the less valuable on that account, for it makes a handy little dictionary of the......
Scottish Moors And Indian Jungles. By Captain J. T. Newell.
(Hurst and Blackett.) — Captain Newall has added another to the already long list of books on Indian sport, in which he seems to have been most active in the pig-sticking line,......
Lives Of Alchemystical Philosophers. By A. E. Waite....
Waite tells us that this volume is founded on a similar work published in 1815, which has become a bibliographical rarity. He then introduces us to the theory of " The Magnum......
Gabriel Garcia Moreno.* So Little Is Known Of Ecuador, That
we took up this adaptation by Lady Herbert of a French memoir relating the history of Don Gabriel Garcia Moreno with curiosity that soon became interest. We are bound, however,......
Current Literature.
A Cloud on St. Angelo. By Cyril Bennett. 2 vols. (T. F. Unwin.)—There is a great deal of imperfectly disciplined power in this story, which is, on the whole, an improvement on "......
Old Wilds. Edited By "trim." Reprinted From The Halifax...
(G. Vickers.)—We have in these pages a very striking and vivid picture of the palmy days of the provincial players, days which have gone for ever ; for though companies still "......
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