Current Literature.
Money, a Popular Exposition. By T. Binney. (Jackson, Watford, and Hodder.)—Let the public beware of what little boys call "a sell." Any one who takes up this book under the......
Lady Enid Geraint, And Other Productions. By An Old...
(T. Bosworth.)—It is recorded of Warren Hastings that after his return from India he wrote verses, and that his guests at Daylesford were very much disappointed when one of his......
The Magazines.
THE Magazines are interesting this month. Each of the four older magazines to which we usually confine our review, simply because they are representatives of the whole, and......
Fortune's Football. A Historical Tale. 4 Vols. By Mrs. Ogden
Meeker. (T. C. Newby.)—One would have been disposed to speak favourably of this historical novel, at least in comparison with other historical novels, if it had not been......
Bible Words For Daily Use. (knight And Son.)—a Pretty Pocket
volume, which for every day in the year, even leap year, gives a page on which is for the morning a text of Scripture, which is interrogative, with another by way of answer,—for......
The Voices Of The Year; Or, The Poet's Kalendar....
(Charles Griffin and Co.)—This fine volume is a New Year's gift-book come a little late, but none the less welcome on that account. The binding is magnificent, paper and type......
Who's Who In 1865. Edited By William John Lawson. (a.
H. Bally and Co.)—This exceedingly useful little volume, which has now reached the seventeenth year of its age, and made itself of great value to the public for the compendious......
Elione ; Or, Light In Darkness. By C. M. Smith.
(Murray and Co.)— A pretty story, which seems to be derived from a German source, or at least prompted by considerable familiarity with German literature. The immense wickedness......
Macaria. By Augusta J. Evans. Three Vols. (saunders,...
Co.)—An importation from America, as is proved by the presence of that horrible word "dubiety." The author has sent us a sort of novel which was formerly more common than it is......
Eden, And Other Poems. By Alfred Dixon Toovey. (longman And
Co.)—" Modern Life," the longest of these poems, was written by the author in boyhood, and having been some years out of print is now re- written and republished. It is......
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