The Riviera, By The Rev. Hugh Macmillan, D.d., And Italy

: its Rivers, its Lakes, its Cities, its Art (Virtue and Co.), are two good illustrated works which mutually complement each other. Dr. Macmillan is a well-known writer, from......

Every-day Life In South India ; Or, The Story Of

Coopooswamey an Autobiography. (Religious Tract Society.)—We learn from the Preface (which, we take it for granted, is genuine) that the writer is a native of the Madras......

Border Lances. By The Author Of "belt And Spur." (seeley

and Co.)—This " romance of the northern marches in the reign of Edward III." has, perhaps, the fault of dealing with characters and events not sufficiently striking. Historical......

The Ill-tempered Cousin, By Frances Elliott (f. V. White And

Co.), is a far from satisfactory performance, even as three-volume fiction now-a-days goes—all the less satisfactory that its author shows here and there a power of sketching......

They Are Now Reproduced From The Original Engravings By The

Brothers Dalziel. The time for criticising them is not now. It is curious to see the " wolf " in the parable of the " Good Shepherd" transmuted into an undoubted lion. Messrs.......

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Treasure Island. By Robert Louie Stevenson. Illustrated...

Co.)—Our readers are already aware how highly we appreciate thii thorough-going pirate story, with all its blood-and- thunder and delightful crises and hair-breadth escapes.......

The Raven. By Edgar Poe. With A Commentary By John

H. Ingram. (G. Redway.)—This is an interesting monograph on Poe's famous poem. First comes the poet's own account of the genesis of the poem, with a criticism, in which Mr.......

The Art Journal. (virtue And Co.)—this Is The First Volume

of a new series inaugurated with the beginning of the current year by a considerable reduction in price. We are glad to learn that the change has had the good effect of more......

A Trip To Prairie Land, By Francis Jameson Rowbotham (s.

Low and Co.), belongs to the wet-blanket order of literature. Mr. Row- botham's experiences of Dakota are unpleasantly suggestive of the doings, and still more of the......