Sermons. Fourth Series. By The Late Rev. Frederick W....
M.A. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—To read a sermon of Mr. Robertson's, after those of the thousand other clergymen who publish their annual volume, is like entering into a new......
Thoughts, Past And Present, On Life And Love. By D.
R. M'Nab. (F. Pitman.)--A sonorous title for a little volume of extracts—prose and verse—moderately well selected. They are, however, by hypothesis, of a very didactic sort.......
The Silver Casket. By " A. L. 0. E." (t. Nelson
and Sons.)—Another child-trap, in which, under the pretence of a story, the unhappy infants are to be made to take large doses of Low-Church theology. It is not, however, a bad......
Of Surgeons, The Accomplished Author Has Set Himself To...
the principles that rest is the most important therapeutic agent in the cure of accidents and surgical diseases, and that every pain has its distinct and pregnant signification.......
Vatican Sculptures Briefly Explained. By Robert...
and Hall.)—A beautifully printed pocket volume of outlines of the principal sculptures of the Vatican. The author took photographs of the statues, then made a tracing from them,......
Current Literature.
Dockyard Economy and Naval Power. By P. Barry. (Sampson Low, Son, and Co.)—The author has for some time, as he informs us, written on naval subjects for the Morning Herald, and......
Pitman's Popular Lecturer And Reaaer. Edited By Henry...
Pitman.)—This is the first volume of a now series, the former series having reached seven volumes. It consists of a collection of lectures by various authors, and is intended......
The Cambridge Shakespeare. Volume Iil By W. G. Clark And
W. Aldis Wright. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume finishes the comedies, or rather those plays usually printed before the histories. We see no falling off from the accuracy of......
My Imprisonment At Washington. By Mrs. Greenhow. (richard...
would be offensive if it were not so very absurd. Its author was during the Presidency of Mr. Buchanan one of tho leaders of Washington fashion, and though violently Southern in......
Annals Of Industry And Genius. By C. L. Brightwell (t.
Nelson and Sons.)—Lives of men, mostly self-taught, who have been remark- able for their literary or scientific eminence. Among others we notice Sir William Jones, Cervantes,......
On Some Legal And Economic Questions Connected With Land...
Mortgage Companies. By A. G. Henriques, Esq., barrister-at-law. (Effingham Wilson.)—A very timely pamphlet pointing out the prin- ciple on which these societies are managed and......
Keeping Afloat. A Novel. (c. J. Skeet.)—lord Hawkseurl...
Arkley, the son of a man worth millions, into a marriage with his sister, Lady Bertha. Soon after old Arkley dies, and the only property found is 200,000/. and a landed estate.......
The Magazines.
THE Cornhill contains the first part of Mr. Thackeray's story, which, oddly enough, is written as if he had contemplated its posthumous publication, the hero telling his story......
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