The Practical Mechanics' Journal Record Of The Great...
1862. (Longman and Co.)—This is the best memorial of the Great Exhibition that we have as yet seen. It is not, of course, a complete record of the contents of the great show,......
The Countess Dowager. By Julia Tilt —this Is A Collection
of short detached tales, strung together, as is usual in such cases, in a remark- ably awkward and artificial manner. Miss Tilt prides herself upon the fact that none of these......
Current Literature.
Stirring Times under Canvas. By Captain J. Herford. (Bentley.) — It may, perhaps, be thought that the time is gone by when a mere narra- tive of personal experience or adventure......
Miracles Of Nature And Marvels Of Art. (dean And Son.) — We
are inclined to think that this is one of the most trumpery books we have ever met with. It is, we presume, designed for the use of boys ; and it professes to give an account of......
The Model Church. By The Rev. L. B. Brown. (freeman.)—this
small work, which professes to contain an inquiry into the nature, con- stitution, government, and characteristics of the Church of the first century, is the essay to which a......
Dante's Divina Commedia In English.*
A VERY weak translation of a very great poem is a painfu l and instructive thing. Perhaps the idea which, in some as pects, it most naturally awakens, is that of a little child......
Books Received During The Week.
The Bampton Lectures for 1804, by Adam Story Farrar, M.A. (Murray).—Tales of Life in Earnest, by Miss Crompton (Darton and Hodge).—Shall we Register Title? by Tenison Edwards......
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