The Provost Of Glendookie. By Andrew Smith Robertson....
and Ferrier.)—Here we have " Glimpses of a Fife Man" in the old weaving days when men worked at the loom in their own houses. One Saunders, who rises from a humble station to be......
Records Of The Infantry Militia Battalions Of The County Of
Southampton, 1757 - 1894. By Colonel Lloyd Verney. (Longmans.) —This is beyond doubt a handsome, well got-up volume, in which many people will find much that interests them. The......
The Book Of Public Arms. Compiled And Edited By Arthur
Charles Fox-Davies and M. E. B. Crookes. (T. C. and E. L. Jack, Edinburgh.)—The contents of this book are sufficiently described by its sub-title, " A CyclopEedia of the......
The Successful Life. By An " Elder Brother." (cassell And...
—The chapters in this book are addressed to young men about to enter business, but we do not think any man, whatever his occupation might be, could read them without learning......
Of Them Are Tinged—we Might Say Deeply Coloured—with The...
that is characteristic of Russian fiction ; yet as a whole, compared with other authors that might be named, Poushkin is fairly cheerful. His "Amateur Peasant-girl," for......
Appledore Farm. By Katharine S. Macquoid. 3 Vols. (ward And
Downey.)—The story is commonplace enough, but it is told with a certain grace of style. The heroine is somewhat foolish ; her honest lover a little tedious ; her dishonest one,......
The Visionary. Translated From The Norwegian Of Jonas Lie By
Jessie Muir. (Hodder Brothers.)—There are some things in this volume which can be read with unmixed pleasure,—the interesting memoir of the author, for instance, and the chapter......
The Collected Mathematical Papers Of H. S. S. Smith. Edited
by J. W. L. Glaisher. 2 vols. (The Clarendon Press.)—The sub- jects treated in these two volumes are, of course, of a technical character, which makes them unsuitable for......
We Have Received A Fifth Edition Of The Practical Guide
to Algiers, by George W. Harris (G. Philip and Son). We are told that it has been thoroughly revised up to date (the preface to this edition, indeed, bears the date " Algiers,......
St. Thomas's Priory. By Joseph Gillow. (burns And...
volume contains a record of the ministry carried on by missioners of the Roman Catholic faith at Stafford between the Reformation and the present time. The writer's intention,......
An Artist's Fate. By Cecil Clarke. (elliot Stock.)—mr....
artist fails to interest us ; if his " fate" keeps us in sus- pense—and indeed we do not know for a time whether he is destined for one of the daughters of Mr. Salmonsen, the......
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