Comical French Grammar. By Edward James Drury. (george...
sign of corruption of manners in a country, it's the multiplicity of laws," wrote a learned Frenchman. We see a worse sign in the multiplicity of jokes. As, however, it will......
Philip Lyndon's Troubles. By Edith Owen Bourne. (s....
Co.)—We often hoar people say, " I hate a novel with a purpose," and yet a good many novels written with a purpose have won great popularity, and partly at least, fulfilled......
A Freak Of Freedom ; Or, The Republic Of San
Marino. By J. Theodore Bent. (Longmans.)—Sun Marino is certainly one of the curiosities of the world ; a little Republic which has preserved its independence for fifteen......
Shadows Of The Coming Truth T A Consideration Of The
Broad Aspects of Religion, Visored in Connection with the Doctrines of Development. (Elliot Stock.)—The full descriptive title of this book is given, because it indicates pretty......
An Army (the Army Of The West), Marches 800 Miles
beyond its base its communications liable to be cut off by the slightest effort of the enemy, mostly through a desalt, the whole distance almost totally destitute of resources,......
The Two Mothers. By J. M. Joy. (bell And Sons.)—this
is a tale of the Frenoh Revolution. There is some merit in the plot. The way in which the sinister purposes of revenge cherished by "la belle Gabrielle" are defeated shows some......
Introduction To The Systematic Zoology And Morphology Of...
By A. Macalister, M.D. (Hodges, Dublin. 1878.)—This work forms part of the Dublin University Press Series. No brief :notice of it could adequately represent its mope and merit.......