Through The West Indies. By Mrs. Granville Layard....
and Co.)—Mrs. Layard visited Tobago, Trinidad, Demerara, Jamaica, Barbados, and other West Indian Colonies. On the whole, she preferred Barbados, putting, perhaps, Demerara......
Publication, Besides Being Revised To Date, Contains Some...
features, the chief of which seems to be that shipping returns are given in nearly all the Colonies for each of the ten years ending 1886 under two heads, " British Tonnage "......
The Parish Guide. Edited By The Rev. Theodore Johnson....
Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This " handbook for the use of the Clergy and Lay-Helpers " is a most useful publication. Many writers and workers of deserved eminence have......
Hermes : Anah And Zitha. (hay, Nisbet, And Co., Glasgow.)—
This is described as a sequel to " Hafed, Prince of Persia." In the former volume were many extraordinary ideas, such as the fac-similes of the handwriting which was said to be......
Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria : Her Life And Jubilee.
By Thomas Archer. Vol. I. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Archer is well known as a writer of contemporary history, a task for which the enormous mass of materials, on the one hand, and......
The History Of The Second Queen's Royal Regiment. By...
Colonel John Davis. Vol. I. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—The second title of this volume is "The English Occupation of Tangiers from 1661 to 1684." This regiment (now called the......
The Book Of British Ballads. (g. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York.) —This is a selection of some fifty-five ballads, profusely and beau- tifully illustrated after designs by Creswick, Gilbert, and others. Such a small number of ballads......
Crasus Minor : His Education, And Its Results. By Austin
Pember, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There is much truth in what Mr. Pember urges against modern developments of upper- class education. Sometimes he overstates his case.......
The Expositor. Edited By The Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.a.
Third Series, Vol. VI. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We need hardly commend this periodical, so often praised in the columns of the Spectator, to the notice of our readers. We do not......
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