The Maid A' The Mw. By Mrs. Compton Reads. 2
vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a very disagreeable story, well intended, we do not doubt, for vice is certainly made to appear odious ; bat scarcely, WO should think,......
Myth - Land. By F. Edward Hulme. (sampson Low And Co.)— Thin
is an intereeting account of the strange creatures which in classical, meditate], and even modern times have existed in the popular fancy,—the chinned, for instance, fairies,......
Swifter Than A Weaver's Shuttle. By James W. Gambier,...
R.N. 3 vols. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Captain Gambier has not been by any means sparing of incident or sensation in thie story. Perhaps he might have made it a little leas......
Lyrical Poems. By Richard Watson Dixon. (printed By H....
Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.)—Perhaps there never was a time when good printing and good paper were more appreciated in England than the present. The beautiful little......
A Concise History Of England And The English People. By
the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart. (Joseph Huglies.)—A history of England from the earliest times to the present day, contained in 500 small pages, cannot, if it attempts......
Scenes And Characters. By Charlotte M. Yonge....
the twenty-fourth volume of the collected issue of Mid - Voiles novels and tales. It contains the second in chronological order of her productions, and is certainly interesting,......
The Lady Drusilia. By Thomas Purnell. (ward And Downey.) —we
were prepared for something disagreeable by the second title of "A Psychological Romance," and had our anticipation completely fulfilled. The story, in the main, is the......