Professor Ansted's Gold - Seeker's Manual Is Not Only A...
the time, but for all times ; for when has the day dawned upon civilized society that gold was not considered a precious metal ? In a certain sense the book may be considered a......
Mr. Wilde's Closing Years Of Dean Swift's Life Is Less
a sketch of his latter days than a medical review of his bodily symptoms from the boyish period when he indulged himself in eating " a hundred golden pippins " at once, and, as......
Bibliontania In The Middle Ages Is A Useful And Agreeable
collection of antiquarian gossip. The author's object is to vindicate the monks from the charges of ignorance and sloth that have been so often brought against them by modern......
A Book For A Corner Is A Selection Of Short
pieces, or of passages that bear transplanting, with brief introductions in which criticism pre- dominates. Some of the authors are eminent—as Pope, Gray, Goldsmith ; man y are......
The Early Poems Of Mr. Reade Were Distinguished By Poetical
tempera. ment and a remarkable fluency both of words and verse; but they h a d so strong an imitative character of Byron, that it often took the shape of an echo. In his......
Publications Received.
BooKs. Four Months among the Gold-Finders of Alta California ; being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts. By J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, M.D. The History......
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