Cobbett's Legacy To Parsons. (griffin.)—whatever It May...
Legacy is scarcely just now, but it certainly has the merit of very vigorous language. "The author's son, William Cobbett," supplies a preface in which the only remarkable thing......
The Golden Chain Of Praise. By Thomas H. Gill. (hunt.) — Mr.
Gill certainly has a good notion of what a hymn ought to be, and carries out his conception with some power and success. The chief fault that we have to find with him will be......
The Reporter's Guide. By Thomas Allen Reed. (pitman.)—any...
wants a thoroughly sensible and practical account of the pro- fession of " reporting " should read this little book, and the number of those who do want such an account is not......
Cassell's Ilustratecl Readings, By Tom Hood, Second...
Co.), is a volume full of good things in prose and verse ; s. selection of such sort as does credit to the taste and judgment of the editor. Most English authors of note appear,......
The Prophet Isaiah, Chapters I.-xxxiii. From The German...
Ewald, by 0. Glove; B.D. (Deighton and Bell ; Bell anti Daldy.)—We are often inclined, it must be confessed, to wish, with Dean Milman, that we had an Ewald to criticize Ewald.......
Home From India. By John Pomeroy. 2 Vols. (tinsley.)—this Is
one of the novels to which a critic finds it difficult to do justice. It is something of a labyrinth, and a labyrinth is apt to try the temper of even the best-tempered of men,......
We Heartily Welcome A Very Pleasant-looking Edition Of...
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (Sampson Low and Co.), to which the Rev. W. Webb has prefixed a readable introduction. We hope, though we do not feel confident, that the younger......
Little Women. Part Ii. By Louisa M. Alcott. (boston, United
States, Roberts ; London, Sampson Low.)—This is a continuation of a pleasant little book which some of our readers may remember to have been praised in these columns a few......
Athletic Training And Health. By John Harrison. (james...
Harrison, unless we misunderstand him, advocates a distinctly athletic training. He argues, for instance, that the condition to which the pugilist brings himself before a......
Constance Aylmer; A Story Of The Seventeenth Century. By H.
F. P. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We always feel to be "rubbed up the wrong way " by stories of the seventeenth century, whether they are written in the interest of Cavaliers or of......
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