The Pilot And His Wffe. Translated From The Norwegian Of
Jonas Lie, by G. L. Tottenham. (Blackwood and Sons).—This is a very fresh and vigorous story. It opens with a striking picture of "old Jacob" in his lonely dwelling on Little......
Disappeared From Her Rome. By Mrs. Fred. E. Perkis....
—This story, though written in a feeble style, is in a certain measure successful. The mystery on which its success depends is well kept, and when it is revealed the reader is......
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Professor Huxley's Physiography.*
SOME nine years ago Professor Huxley gave a course of lectures at the London Institution under the title of "Physiography." These lectures (which were afterwards repeated at......
Sheen's Foreman. By Lady Wood. (chapman And Hall.)—there...
all Lady Wood's novels a degree of originality, joined to a careless strength—we might almost say audacity—of expression, and a breezy energy, that carry her readers on from the......
German And English Dictiona, Y. By W. Dwight Whitney And
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What He Cost Her. By James Payn. 3 Vols. (ohatto
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The Harvest Of A Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts For Busy
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A Girl Of A Thousand; Or, Passages In The Life
of Laura Bellaire. (Walbrook and Co.)—This is a sketch of a young woman's career, put into an autobiographical form. There is a certain cleverness about it though we should say......
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