Mental Evolution In Man. By George John Romanes. (kagan...
Trench, and Co.)—Dr. Romanes writes in his first chapter : —" After centuries of intellectual conquest in all regions of the phenomenal universe, man has at last begun to find......
The English Poor - Law System, Past And Present. By Dr. P.
F. Aschrolt. Teanslated by Herbert Preston-Thomas. (Knight and Co.)—This is another of the many instances in which we English people have been indebted to a foreign observer for......
Studies On The Legend Of The Holy Grail. By Alfred
Nutt. (David Nutt.)—This is one of the books which, unfortunately for their chance of due appreciation, very few persons besides the author are competent to review. Mr. Nutt has......
Life And Letters Of William Fleming Stevenson, D.d. By His
Wife. (Nelson and Sons.)—William Stevenson was an Irishman of the North, descended on his father's side from a settler who had come over with Cromwell, but having much Scotch......
The Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited,...
annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. 3 vols. The Prose Works. 2 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Shepherd has gone back to the original editions for his text. While we wish to......
Behind The Bungalow. By " Eha." (thacker And Spink, Cal-
cutta.)—This volume, the work of a writer who is already favourably known for powers of observation and humorous description through his book on Indian natural history under the......
Life And Letters Of Mrs. Sewell. By Mrs. Bayly. (james
Nisbet and Co.)—Mrs. Sewell—her maiden name was Wright—came of a family of Friends. In afterlife she left this community, but did not find satisfaction for her religious......
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