Our Schools And Colleges. By F. S. Do C. Bisson.
(Simpkin and Marshall.)—This is not a perfect handbook of its subject, though it is a considerable improvement on anything of the kind that we have seen before. Mr. Bisson has......
Lara. Illustrated By C. B. Birch. (art Union Of London.)—mr.
Birch has illustrated Byron's poem with twenty correct and elegant drawings. Lace is not one of the poet's happiest efforts, resembling, so far, moat other continuations. "No......
Epitaphs Of The Catacombs. By Rev. J. Spencer Northcote,...
(Longmans.)—This is a valuable and interesting book, not aiming at being exhaustive, of the nature, indeed, of an abridgment, but qualified to form an excellent introduction to......
The Magazines.
TIM Magazines are becoming a difficulty for reviewers. So much of the thought of the day is flowing towards them, and they occasionally contain so many good papers, that it is......
Our Vicar. By Wynter Frore Knight, B.c.l. (samuel...
Knight undertakes to describe the sorrows of a high-minded curate, who is brought into relations with a vicar who is anything but high-minded. The author concedes in his preface......
Utopias ; Or, Schemes Of Social Improvement. From Sir Thomas
More to Karl Marx. By the Rev. F. Kauffmann, M.A. (C. K. Paul and Co.)—The author has attempted too much,—not, we believe, from want of ability to deal with his subject, but......
Current Literature.
A Memory of Thomas Moore. By S. C. Hall. (Virtue.)—Mr. Hall republishes, with corrections and additions from his "Book of Memories," these recollections of Moore. Their chief......
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