A Book About Boys. By A. R. Hope, Anther Of
A Book about Dorninies. (Nimmo.)—This is a readable book, with which, indeed, we often disagree, which sometimes even moves to anger, but which we are never tempted to throw......
Continuity Of Religious Development. By David Griffith....
is a volume of sermons preached to a Unitarian congregation in Tavistock. In the first of the series the author makes some sort of attempt to trace the growth of certain forms......
Fellowship : Letters Addressed To My Sister Mourners....
this little book, which we are unwilling, and indeed unable to criticize, we will say only this—that it bears every mark of a genuine record of experience. We all know how......
British Arms And Armies.i' Sir Sibilud Scorr Has Written A
work on military archaeology which to a great extent, though not wholly, supersedes Grose but he has given a title to the result of his labours which is likely to mislead. He......
English Seamen And Divers. By Alphonse Esquires. (chapman...
regret to have to say of so friendly and intelligent an observer of our national life as M. Esquires that he shows a disposition to book-making. There is some sort of a......
Current Literature.
Bengal's Gnomon, to which has boon added a summary of the results of more recent orthodox criticism. The editors appear to have done their duty with judgment, and it is needless......
Scenes And Studies Of Savage L. By Gilbert Malcolm Sproat.
(Smith and Elder.)—This book is of a kind which we may almost say Englishmen only write. Other countries, indeed, send forth great tra- vellers; notably Germany does so ; but a......
Life's Pilgrimage. By Harriet Power. (saunders And...
By Mrs. Mary Winslow. (Ilunt.)—Of these little books, written, apparently, from very different points of view, the critic gladly contents himself with saying that they are......
Engineering Facts And Figures For 1867. (fullerton.)—this...
record of discoveries and suggestions, which is in this instance the more important, because it includes an account of what was to be seen at the Paris Exhibition of last year.......
The Friendships Of Women. By W. R. Alger. (roberts :
Boston, U.S.)—Mr. Alger thinks that from a variety of causes the passion of love excites an undue interest in these days, while our social arrange- ments are ever making it more......