John Russell Colvin. By Sir Auckland Colvin. (clarendon...
of October 27th, 1857, when announcing the good tidings of the fall of Delhi, contained this notice, " Mr. Colvin, the Lieutenant-Governor, died at Agra on September fith."......
A Fatal Reservation. By R. 0. Prowse. (smith, Elder, And
Co.)— This story is of so good, we may say of so excellent, a quality that it suggests with special force a reflection that has often been made. Critics used to tell novelists......
In The Series Of "the Great Educators" (w. Heinemann) We
have two volumes which it must suffice to mention very briefly. These are Abelard, by Gabriel Compayr6, and Herbart and the Herbartians, by Charles De Garmo. With regard to the......
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Across Asia on a Bicycle. By T. G. Allen, jun., and W. L. Sachtleben. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, having graduated at the University of Washington, Mo., and......
Fairbrass : A Child's Story. By T. Edgar Pemberton. (cornish
Brothers, Birmingham.)—This is a good book of its kind, with no little humour as well as serious meaning in it. It can hardly be said that all the incidents in it are probable ;......
Memoirs Of The Prince De Joinville. Translated From The...
by Lady Mary Loyd. (W. Heinemann )—There are some things that are entertaining in this volume, even some things that are instructive, but there are more that are frivolous, or......
Corpus Poetarum Latinorutn. Edidit J. P. Postgate. (g....
F.)—This second fasciculus, containing Propertius and Ovid, completes the first volume. The preface, which explained the separate appearance of Part I., is now superseded by......
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