Tales From Shakspeare. By Charles And Mary Lamb. Edited,...
an introduction, by Alfred Ainger. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Ainger, as our readers probably know, has already edited with great judiciousness the essays and poems of Lamb. In the same......
The Life Of Henrietta Kerr, Religious Of The Sacred Heart.
Edited by John Morris, S.J. (Roehampton.)—At the time Henrietta Kerr was born, her father, Lord Henry Kerr, was Rector of Dittisham, a village on the Dart. His wife was the......
Poetry As A Representative Art.*
WE sometimes wonder if the anomalies and awkwardnesses of modern scientific nomenclature will ever become so glaring as to give rise to a special department or association, with......
Our War-ships. By Sir W. Cusack-smith, Bart. (kegan....
and Co.)—Anything relating to the Navy should always find many readers among Englishmen, and this little volume is admirably calculated to diffuse accurate information on the......
Flora, The Roman Martyr. 2 Vols. (burns And Oates.)—we Con.
fess that we opened this book with some misgivings. The lives of the Saints of the Roman Church are seldom very interesting to the general reader, and we expected little more......
The Otway's Child. By Hope Stanford. (swan Sonnenschein...
it is quite harmless is the beat we can say of this book. The plot is difficult to follow, and when unravelled is not so original as to repay the trouble involved in discovering......
Protestants From France In Their English Home. By S. W.
Kershaw. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a praiseworthy record of the main facts relating to the settlement of the Huguenot refugees in England, and their relations to the Church......
Current Literature.
The Heiress of Haredale. By Lady Virginia Sandars. (F. V. White and Co.) —This novel possesses considerable merit, in spite of certain blemishes in point of literary form. The......
As Yankees See Us; Or, The Customs Of The Cockneys.
By Leander Richardson. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—In a note prefixed to this book, the English editor observes that he does not suppose the author intends his countrymen to......
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