Where Town And Country Meet. By Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. (long-
mans.)—This is a singularly well-written story. The plot is well contrived. There is poetical character about the justice which we find worked out in the denouement, and yet......
The Present State Of The Fine Arts In France. By
P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and Co.)—It would not be easy to find a writer equally The Present State of the Fine Arts in France. By P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and Co.)—It would not be......
Selected Sermons Of Schleiermacher. Translated By Mary F....
and Stoughton.)—This is a volume of "The Foreign Biblical Library" series, which is appearing under the editorship of Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll. Twenty-seven sermons of......
A Transatlantic Holiday. By T. Fitz-patrick, M.a....
and Co.)—After paying a handsome tribute to the steamer (the ' Teutonic ') in which he crossed the Atlantic, Mr. Fitz-Patrick gives his opinion with much freedom about men and......
Alderman Cobden Of Manchester. By Sir E. W. Watkin, Bart.
(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is a volume mainly devoted to setting forth the services performed by Mr. Cobden in his civic capacity. A chapter, for instance, is given to his......
Peter's Rock In Mohammed's Flood. By Thomas W. Allies....
and Oates.)—This is the seventh and completing volume of Mr. Allies's thoughtful and learned work on " The Formation of Christendom." It takes in the period from the death of......
Types Of The Saintly Life. By Arthur C. Tuberville. (elliot
Stock.)—Mr. Tuberville gives his six chapters to six different types, as he calls them. It cannot be denied that he is sufficiently wide in his sympithieF. Marcus Aurelius, St.......
Ashamed To Say That It Is Beyond Him. "the Tarot
Pack of Cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation to generation, is the primitive book of initiation." " Papus " interprets it, and so supplies Initiates with "an......
Chess. By L. Hoffer. (routledge And Sons.)—this Is A Re-
publication of an article contributed by the author to "The Cyclopmedia of Card and Table Games." It contains a complete account of the game, gives and examines the various......
Westmoreland Church Notes. Collected And Arranged By...
vols. (T. Wilson, Kendal.)—Mr. Bellasis has collected here the " heraldry, epitaphs, and other inscriptions in the thirty- two ancient parish churches and churchyards of......
Academic," Into Which We Cannot Pretend To Follow The...
"The Authorship of the Odyssey" is certainly a powerful argu- ment on the side of the " Chorizontes," though we cannot assent to the view that the Odyssey view of the gods is......
History Of The Free Churches Of England. By Herbert S.
Skeet and Charles S. Miall. (Alexander and Shepheard.)—Mr. Skeat wrote the History as far back as 1850. This work was published in 1868. N r. Miall now continues the work down......