Obeah : Witchcraft In The West Indies. By Hesketh J.
Bell. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Bell has some strange stories to tell us : marvels of Nature, and marvels that seem to be beside or below Nature. What are we to make, for......
The Star Of Gezer, The King's Daughter. (griffith,...
Co.)—" It is easier to criticise than to imitate," is the author's motto, taken from an authority whose name is scarcely familiar under its form " Zeuxis." We shall do neither,......
The Sling And The Stone, Ix. By The Rev. Charles
Voysey. (Williams and Norgate.)—It is years since we last noticed a volume of The Sling and the Stone. We cannot compliment the author on any improvement in the capacity of......
"why We Suffer," And Other Essays. By Henry Hayman, D.d.
(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Dr. Hayman has collected here twelve essays published in various periodicals, the names of which are not always given. The first is the most ambitious, for......
Cardinal Lavigerie. Edited By Richard F. Clarke, S.j....
born in 1825, became Domestic Prelate to the Pope in 1861, was appointed to the See of Nancy two years later, and became Archbishop of Algiers in 1867. This African See has been......
Ad Orientem. By A. D. Frederickson. (w. H. Allen And
Co.) —After seeing Europe, not in its happiest aspect, during the Franco-German War, Mr. Frederickson thought that he should like to refresh himself with a year or so of Cathay.......
Devia Oypria. By D. G. Hogarth, M.a. (h. Frowde.)—mr....
gives us here the results of a tour in Cyprus, undertaken in the interests of classical archteology. These results, it must be allowed, are somewhat meagre. Mr. Hogarth found......
A Southern Planter. By Susan Dabney Smedes. (john...
Smith Dabney was born in Virginia in 1798. He migrated to the State of Mississippi in 1837, finding that he could not make his Virginian plantation pay. There he lived till the......
The Life Of General Boulanger. By F. Turner. (swan Sonnen-
schein and Co.)—We learn that Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger, son of Mons. C. J. R. Boulanger and Marie Anne Webb Griffith, his wife, was born at Rennes on April 29th,......
Current Literature.
The place of honour in the Universal Review for this month is given to a vivid and painful account of the sufferings of Russian exiles doomed to slow torture or to death by......
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