Barnard Has Drawn From Many Sources, Both English And Irish.
Roger of Howden, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of New- bury may be mentioned as among the former, while "The Annals of the Four Masters," "The Annals of Clarmacnoise," may......
Two Books By The Late Mr. J. Fulford Vicary, Author
of that charming story, "A Danish Parsonage," may be mentioned together,—Saga Time (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), and 0/air the King, and Mao, King and Martyr (W. H. Allen and......
Index To Shakspere. By E. M. O'connor. (began Paul, Trench,
and Co.)—Miss O'Connor claims for her "Index" that it combines the perfections of various preceding indexes, and not their imper- fections. Even if we allow such a result to......
Chambers's Encyclopedia. A New Edition. Vol. I., " A "
to "Beaufort." (W. and R. Chambers.)—This Encyclopedia was completed just twenty years ago. It has been revised from time to time. Now a wholly new edition is published. Much......
Life Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By Eric S. Robertson.
(Walter Scott.)—Mr. Robertson tells the story of Longfellow's life—a story, indeed, easily told—sufficiently well, and readers who have not leisure for the bulky volumes of the......
Mellony. By Abel Pallion. (remington And Co.)—mellony, An...
to live with her four aunts, and consequently leads a somewhat uninteresting life, until, when conveying an invalided aunt to a warmer climate, there seems a chance of her......
The Dusantes. By Frank R. Stockton. (sampson Low And Co.)
—This "Sequel to the Casting-away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine," appeared, as did that amusing story, in the Century Magazine. The " Dusantes," it will be remembered, were......
And Its Wealth, Has To Make A Straggle For Existence.
This is the plot of the tale ; and the heroine, Doris Cheyne, one of the five daughters, manages to keep her mother, her sisters, and herself till the wheel of fortune comes......
Some National And Board School Reforms. By Lord Brabazon....
Earl of Meath, better known by the title which he bears on the title-page, has collected a number of papers con- tributed by himself and others at various times to periodicals......
Brotherhood. By David Mclaren Morrison. (simpkin,...
call this "study from life" a happy effort. It contains very little of that "inward culture" which the writer urges, and too much slang, and, we must say, is sometimes some-......
Gabrielle: Or, Worth The Winning. By Mrs. John M. Bradshaw.
(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Two motherless children are adopted by Gabrielle: or, Worth the Winning. By Mrs. John M. Bradshaw. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Two motherless children are......
Appleton's Cyclopedia Of American Biography. Edited By...
and John Fiske. Vol. III., Grinnell—Lockwood. (D. Appleton, New York.)—This work is proceeding with a rapidity which promises to bring it to a conclusion within a desirably......
London Of To - Day. By Charles Eyre Pascoe. (sampson Low And
Co.)—This, a fourth edition, with an increased number of illustrations, really forms most interesting reading, both for foreigners and natives, and especially for Londoners, who......
Heraldry In England. By Edward H. Renton. (wyman And...
Renton briefly explains in this volume the system of English heraldry, and explains, with the help of illustrations, the terms which it uses. An index and glossary complete the......
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