Lorenz Oken : A Biographical Sketch. By Alexander Ecker....
lated from the German by Alfred Tulk. (Began Paul and Co.)— Oken was a naturalist of eminence, who had the misfortune to be a keen politician of the Liberal sort, in days when......
Tanities Of Estimating Its Value As A Factor In Human
life from practical experience. Hence his book is more than an:essay. He dwells on the history of the religion, and he goes into fall details of its system. In fact, he has......
We May Mention Together Two Selections Of Poetry From The
other side of the Atlantic. English Verse : Chaucer to Burns. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)— The editors prefix an introduction which......
Byways Of Nature And Life. By Clarence Deming. (g. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York.)—Mr. Deming has collected here some reminiscences of travel and sport contributed during the course of recent years to the columns of the New York......
Current Literature.
Record of the Unisersity Boat-Race, 1829-1883. Edited by George G. T. Treherne. (Bickers and Son.)—The sumptuous volume of last year has been replaced by a new edition, enlarged......
To Have And To Hold. By Sarah Stredder. 3 Vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—Here we have a somewhat confused story, in which a great number of incidents are mixed up in a perplexing way. It begins with a rescue from a shipwreck on......
The Magazines.
Mn. ARNOLD republishes in the Nineteenth Century his lecture on "Numbers," delivered in New York, which we have spoken of elsewhere. If it has an inner drift against democracy......
The Iliad Of Homer, With A Verse Translation. By W.
C. Green, M.A. (Longmans)—The flow of Homeric translations has some- what slackened of late. Pope, whose work, to parody a hackneyed phrase, is "magnificent, but no......
Dark Rosaleen. By Mrs. O'shea Dillon. (tinsley...
introduces the familiar characters of Irish fiction,—the Protestant rector and the parish priest—here bound together by a friendship which is now, we suppose, very seldom to be......
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