Free Town Libraries. By Edward Edwards. (tritbner.)—mr....
in his preface, that he intends this volume to serve "as a handbook for promoters and managers of free town libraries." For this purpose, he has collected a great mass of......
A Persii Flacci Satirarum Liber. Edited By A. Pretor, M.a.
(Riv- ingtons.)—This volume belongs to the Catena Classicorum and is one of the most valuable and well executed of the series we have seen. The editing of Persius is indeed a......
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A History of Chemical Theory. By A. Wurtz. Translated and edited by H. Watts, F.R.S. (Macmillan.)—This is an admirable and philo- sophical review of the growth of chemical......
A Book Of Scottish Pasquils, 1568-1715. (edinburgh :...
is a book of satirical poems, lampoons, Bre., most of which have something to do with prelacy, the Covenant, bishops, general assemblies, Royalists and Royalists, Jacobites and......
Typhaines Abbey : A Tale Of The 2'wdfth Century. By
Count A. de Gobineau. (Sampson Low.)—This is a story, told with some power, of an incident in the great struggle between feudalism in France and the rising power of the towns.......