Le Chevrier : Scenes De La Fie Rustique. Par Ferdinand
Fabre. (Hachette.)—A rough, rude pastoral, true to many a modern Arcadia. English readers will have some difficulty in mastering the style, which is impregnated with a rustic......
The Family: Its Duties, Joys, And Sorrows. By Count A.
de Gasparin. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—For an English public we fear that the tone of this book will seem too French, too gushing, too revolu- tionary. When Count Gasparin......
Routledge's New Handbook Of Croquet. By Edmund Routledge....
is as much wanted for croquet as for the higher branches of the law, and Mr. Routledgo's rules are so clumsy and illogi- cal that he by no means supplies the deficiency. If we......
Biographies And Miscellaneous Papers. By Washington...
by Pierre Irving. (Bell and Daldy.)—These papers will not add to their author's reputation, but some of them are not unworthy of his name, and will be read with interest. The......
Leland Before Me Union: A Sequel To The Sham Squire.
By W. J. Fitz- patrick. (Dublin : Kelly.)—A rudis indigestaque moles of jobs and atroci- ties, some under cover of law, others under cover of order, and all of them a deep......
The Art Of Public Speaking. By Samuel Neil. Public Meetings,
and how to Conduct them. By Samuel Neil. (llordston and Wright.)—We can hardly think that the first of these two little manuals will be useful to any one. The second may bo of......
Stella, And Other Poems. By Floronz. (blackwood.)—tho...
which this volume is bound makes it fit to lie on a drawing- room table. The contents are a secondary consideration.......
Current Literature.
A BELATED BATCH OF GIFT-BOOKS.—In spite of our pre-Christmas efforts, some of the books of that season remain to be noticed. They wear a rather dejected appearance, coming in so......
Clerical Testimony In Favour Of Total Abstinence. Edited...
Rev. Thomas Hooke, M.A. (Tweedie.)—Certain clergymen have found that by signing the pledge they were able to persuade others to follow their example. If they exhorted the......
Musical Development ; Or, Remarks On The Spirit Of The
Principal Musical Forms. By Joseph Goddard. (Murby.)—Philosophical criticism of the high aesthetic order is apt to glide over the mind so imperceptibly that when you come to the......
The .enid Of Virgil. Books I. And Il Translated Into
English Terse in the Spenserian stanza. By Edward Fairfax Taylor. (Bell and Daldy.)—Whatever we may think of the wisdom of superaddirg the difficulties of the Spenserian stanza......
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