A Short History Of Political Economy In England. By L.
L. Price, M.A. (Methuen.)—This volume, one of the "University Exten- sion Series," gives an account, in biographical form, of Political Economy in England, beginning with Adam......
Doggrel Tales. By " A. S. M. C." (bickers And Son.)—this
is a volume of verses in the style which the late Mr. Lear introduced, accompanied by appropriate drawings. The pictures are some- times fairly successful ; but we cannot praise......
Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. Send Us A Variety Of
prettily illustrated books :—Milton's Ode on the Nativity, illustrated with coloured reproductions of some famous paintings, as "The Sistine Madonna."—Voices in the Starlight,......
A Handbook For Travellers In Japan. By Basil Hall Chamber-
lain and W. B. Mason. (John Murray.)—This is a "third edition, revised, and mostly rewritten." Japan is a country which changes as rapidly as any in the world, and books of this......
History Of Commerce In Europe. By H. De B. Gibbins.
(Mac- millan.)—This is a most useful manual, giving, within a small compass, a sketch of commercial history from the Phomicians, who appear as the chief traders of the West with......
The Drifting Island : Or, The Slave - Hunters Of The Congo.
By Walter Wentworth. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—We have the same characters in this story as we had in " Kibboo Ganey." This time, however, the party start from England to rescue the......
Henrietta Ronner : The Painter Of Cat Life And Cat
Character. By M. H. Spielmaun. (Cassell and Co.)—Art as well as science is being highly subdivided, when an artist finds it worth while to live for painting cats. This Madame......
Old Corney's Money. By Mrs. Carey Hobson. (religious...
Corney's Money, though a short story with a moral to it, is better, and better written, than the generality of the class of books to which it appears to belong. But beyond......
The Little Marine. By Florence Marryat. (hutchinson And...
is nothing particularly exciting about the adventures of the "Little Marine." He goes to Japan, adopts a little Japanese child, and eventually loses her, through quarrelling......
The Journal Of Indian Art. (bernard Quaritch.)—the...
this periodical, together with the January number of the approaching year, have been devoted to representations of the Indian collections of the Prince of Wales, consisting......
Of Annual Volumes We Have :—the Ladies' Treasury, Edited By
Mrs. Warren (Bemrose and Sons), containing, besides miscellaneous contents of fiction, &c., articles on the fashions, &c.—The Church Sunday-School Magazine, Vol. XXVII. (Church......
Post Office London Directory, 1892. (kelly And Co.)—it Is...
less to praise this work, which, while it grows bigger every year, is brought out with undiminished carefulness as to details, details so numerous and so varied that it is......
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