Scenes Of Wonder And Curiosity In California. By James M.
Hutch- ings. (Chapman and Hall.)—The best part of this entertaining book is the engravings, upwards of 100 in number, and executed in San Fran- cisco from photographs under the......
Luther's Letters To Women. Translated By Mrs. Malcolm....
Hall.)—Ladies seem to have a particular pleasure in reading and writing books which are in some way addre ssed to them as a sex, and therefore this book will probably be......
Faces For Fortunes. By Augustus Mayhew. 3 Vols. (tinsley...
There is no sound in this world so beautiful as the laughter of women. In the hope of hearing it this book was written." It is not therefore a novel, our readers will observe,......
Christendom's Divisions. By Edmund S. Foulkes, Formerly...
of Jesus College, Oxon. (Longman and Co.)—The author denominates his work a philosophical sketch, and intends it as the pre- cursor of a history of the different reunions of the......
Capital Punishment Based On - Professor Mittermaier's...
Macrae Moir, Barrister - at - Law. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) Capital Punishment — Is it Defensible? By Philander. (J. Nisbet and Op.)—Both these books are dedicated to Lord......
Christian Ballads. By Arthur Cleveland Come, D.d. Reviged...
by J. A. Hews, R. Hooper, and others. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—An importation from New York, where the ballads were published, it seems, twenty five-years ago. They are......
Of Ordinary Conversation Between The Characters Than...
natural......
Or Wise, People Are So Apt To Think That Talking
about Christianity is living a Christian life. Otherwise the tale calls for no especial criticism. The Glory of God in Man. Four sermons preached before tho University of......
A General View Of Positivism. Translated From The French Of
Auguste Comte by J. H. Bridges. (Trubner and Co.)—This is an excellent translation of what, with all the admiration and respect which M. Comte commands, can only be called a......
Practical Hints For Investing Money. By F. Playford...
a deal of useful information and advice of which persons ignorant of money matters would do well to avail themselves. Mr. Nathaniel White, of the Civil Service, has compiled a......
Physical Geography Of The Holy Land By E. Robinson, D.d.
(John Murray.)—The learned author of Biblical Researches in Palestine intended his travels to be preparatory to a systematic work on the geo- graphy of Syria. Fearing, however,......
Lessons On Hunting And Sporting . By Scrntator. (chapman And
Hall.)— The writer is master of his subject, and has a pleasant gossipping style, but he is a hunting man, and no friend to battues and crowded pheasant preserves. His lessons......
The Hawkshawes. A Novel. 2 Vols. By M. A. Bird.
(John Max- well and Co.)—t . novel written apparently in imitation of Mrs. Rad- cliffe is not often met with in these days, and if such a work appears the author seldom ventures......
Angel Visits And Other Poems. (smith, Elder, And...
very far above the average of "little volumes." It is the work of an admire; and even direct imitator of Tennyson, but one who does not dishonour his modeL......
Besom Ben. By Edwin Waugh. (john Heywood, Manchester.)—...
of a practical joke, or rather of two or three practical jokes, played by Lancashire operatives on each other. The main object of course is to illustrate the Lancashire dialect,......
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