A Wanderer. By H. Ogram Matuce. (kegan Paul, Trench, And
Co.)—Here we have some clever sketches of travel and of personal experience. Now and then one finds a trace of paradox —the opening essay, on the delights of release from work,......
Cycloptedia Of Education. Arranged And Edited By Alfred...
(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The "List of Principal Contributors" which the editor has prefixed to this cyclopEedia contains some names that are a guarantee of good work. We may......
Llanelly Parish Church. By Arthur Mee. (south Wales Press...
Llanelly.)—Mr. Mee has collected here a considerable amount of information about the history of the fabric of Llanelly Church, about the clerks who have held the benefice, and......
The English Poets : Lessing : And Rousseau. By J.
R. Lowell. (W. Scott.)—In this little volume, one of the " Camelot Series," Mr. James Russell Lowell republishes lectures delivered many years ago on Spenser, Shakespeare,......
London Geological Field Class. (george Philip.) —...
has organised excursions which have for their object the study of the country round London. Begin- ning with mere elementary work, the class proceeds to a higher stage, in which......
Exercises In Latin Verse. By The Rev. G. Preston, M.a.
(Mac- millan.)—If the art of Latin verse-writing is to be kept alive, it will be by such books as this. Mr. Preston has taken great pains to collect some really fresh and good......
Last Words To Girls. By Mrs. William Grey. (rivingtons.)— "
The title of this little book," says the author in her preface, " is not so much the name as the expression of a fact." She has given many years to the work of setting forward......
Life Of Viscount Bolingbroke. By Arthur Hassell, M.a. (w. H.
Allen and Co.)--With this volume, one of the "Statesmen Series," there is little fault to find. Some partiality for his sub- ject must be allowed to a biographer, who, indeed,......
Arm - Chair Essays. By The Author Of " Three-cornered...
and Downey.)—This volume is an olla podrida, not ill- mixed, and easy to consume and digest. There is a somewhat sensational story, " The Curious History of some Misdirected......
Mary My/es. By Mrs. Edmonds. 2 Vols. (remington.)—the...
not do herself justice by the way in which she intro- duces her hero and heroine. She, having an afternoon's holiday, prepares to enjoy it by letting down her hair, taking off......
—the American Lady Who Introduces These "...
countrywoman who compiled them, are both evidently in earnest; but the word "compiled" is used advisedly in regard to the book, for though the chapters are arranged in an......
Historical Sketches Of The English Church. By The Rev....
Miller. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This small book, which appears to be only a first instalment, nevertheless carries down its history almost to the present time. It is written......
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