The Naval Pocket - Book. By W. Laird Clowes, With Plans....
Publishing Company.)-This is a little book which will prove most interesting and useful to all who are in- terested in the Navy, and that ought to mean the whole nation.......
What Katy Did. By Susan Coolidge. (blackie And Son.)- This
is a volume of Messrs. Blackie's "School and Home Library," and quite worthy of its place. Katy is a high- spirited creature who is not a little improved by the discipline of......
Dr. Gray's Quest. By Francis H. Underwood, Ll.d. (gay And
Bird.)-This is a well-written story of American life. The characters are drawn with no common skill. Perhaps Mercy Starkweather, afterwards Winterton, though certainly the least......
Alpine Notes, By George Wherry (macmillan And Bowes, Cam-...
is a collection of articles on Swiss holiday wanderings contributed to a Cambridge paper. Though there is notting very new there is much that is true in the book, and Alpine......
A Woman Of The Commune. 13y G. A. Henty. (f.
V. White and Co.)-This is not a tale of the usual type we are accustomed to receive from Mr. Henty, but a romance, an historical romance it is true, beginning at the Siege of......
The Magazines.
Miss OLIVE SCHREINER is a little tedious in her discourse upon heredity, but her paper on the blacks of South Africa. is much the most interesting in the July number of the......
The Life Of John Edward Blakeney. By The Rev. William
Odons. (Home Words Office.)-Mr., or as he was during his latter years, Archdeacon, Blakeney spent half his life in Shef- field, this half being again almost exactly subdivided......
History Of Suffolk. By The Rev. J. J. Raven. (elliot
Stock.) -Whether to tell the history of a whole county in chronological order is better than to divide it into separate subjects, we are not prepared to decide. It demands much......
The Apostolic Age. By Carl Von Weizsacker. Translated By...
Millar, B.D. Vol. II. (Williams and Norgate.)-This volume belongs to the series published by the "Theological Translation Fund." Professor von Weizsacker holds the position......
We Have Received Another Volume Of The "anglican Pulpit...
(Hodder and Stoughton), containing, as do those pre- viously noticed in these columns, Sermons (given at full length), Sermon Outlines, Illustrations for the Sundays and......
Current Literature.
Letters from Paris during and after the Hundred Days. By Helen Maria Williams. (The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland.)- These letters give a curious picture of Paris in 1815.......
The Little Duchess, And Other Stories. By Ethel Turner....
Lock, and Bowden.) -These pleasant little stories have their scenes laid in Australia. The local colour is therefore fresh and interest- ing, and besides the plots we get an......
Poems Of England. (macmillan And Co.)-this Selection Of...
poetry, with notes by Mr. George and Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, is, on the whole, a satisfactory one. It, at any rate, includes no poem which ought not to be there. We miss, however,......
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