The Magazines.
No one has as yet sung fittingly the Jubilee Ode. The Poet- Laureate's was a failure ; and Mr. Swinburne's, which is a hymn to England, not to her Queen, though it contains some......
Ralph Waldo Emerson : His Maternal Ancestors. By David...
Haskins, D.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Dr. Haskins quotes on his title-page an appropriate sentence, "Every man in a bundle of his ancestors," and proceeds to give us some......
Angling Reminiscences Of The Rivers And Lochs Of...
Thomas Tod Stoddart. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—This is a new edition, published fifty years after the first appearance of the work. It is for the most part written in the......
Current Literature.
Gleanings from a Tour in Palestine and the East. By Charles D. Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The friend who advised Dr. Bell to publish these recollections of his travels......