The Theory Of Heat. By Professor Thomas Preston....
a volume of some seven hundred pages, Professor Preston has treated the theory of heat in a comprehensive and scientific spirit. The style is lucid and attractive, and the tenor......
Tempest - Torn. By Lieutenant - Colonel Andrew Haggard....
and Co.)—There is the material of a good story in this portentous volume of nearly four hundred pages. But it is far too long, ill put together, and spun out to an almost.......
The Gospel According To Peter : A Study. By The
Author of "Supernatural Religion." (Longmans.)—No one will have any .difficulty in anticipating the line which the author of "Super- natural Religion" would take in dealing with......
Thames Rights And Wrongs. By C. H. Cook. (archibald Con-
stable.)—Mr. Cook, who is better known under the nom de plume of "John Bickerdyke," has here put together a very interesting volume. Beyond all doubt, there is a conflict......
The Country Month By Month : October. By J. A.
Owen and Prof. G. S. Boulger. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—These are most bandy little reminders of the typical features of each month, and the only question which can arise......
The Lifting Of The Shadow. By Ic. M. Lady. (sunday
School Union.)—There is good material for a short story in this volume, but it is not skilfully managed. The misunderstandings between the Thorolds, father and son, are somewhat......
Bourne's Handy Assurance Manual, 1891. By William...
is needless to enlarge on the usefulness of this manual, drawn up, as it is, from official returns. In estimating the comparative merits of assurance societies, three things, it......
Scottish Land-names. By Sir H. Maxwell. (william...
H. Maxwell went very thoroughly into the derivation of land names in the Rhind Lectures. It would be useless to attack the subject with less care, for the study of Celtic names......
Coal-dust: An Explosive Agent. By Donald M. D. Stuart,...
(Published at Colliery Manager Office.)—Mr. Stuart has made an exhaustive study of the facts and inferences to be gathered from the explosion at the Camerton Colliery. It is a......
Biological Lectures And Addresses. By Arthur Mines...
late Professor Marshall had certainly the gift of expounding problems in biology in clear language and with, forcible illustration. Some of these lectures are really admirable......
We Have Received Two More Volumes Of Professor Skeet's...
edition of The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ,(Clarendon Press). One of these contains "The Translation of B oethius' Consolation of Philosophy" and "Troilus," each with an......
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