Christopher Columbus. From The French Of N. Lo Marquis Do
Belloy. With fifty-one drawings on wood and six etchings by Lriopold Flamong. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—The narrative is bright and readable. It has nothing now to tell us about......
Events In The Life Of An Octogenarian. By George Washington
Abbott. (Remington and Co.)—Mr. Abbott's title-page is misleading. The events he chronicles do not, except in a very few instances, concern himself at all ; they are events of a......
The Moor And The Loch. By John Colquhonn. 2 Vols.
(Murray.)—This edition, published after an interval of nearly 30 years, is so much enlarged that it may almost be called a now book. Mr. Colquhoun has, indeed, incorporated with......
A Match In The Dart. By (george Rose, M.a.) Arthur
Sketchley. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Hero wo have a story, in no way remark- able, of two young people who fall in love with each other, marry in haste, and repent at leisure.......
The Pentateuch And Hebrews Analysed And Illustrated. By...
J. Davidson. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This little volume is meant to be a sort of guide-book to a portion of the Bible, and a very useful one it will be found. It analyses and......
A Chaperon's Cares. By Mary Catharine Jackson. 2 Vols....
Elder, and Co.)—The plan of the book is a not uningeuious method of introducing three love-stories, wo may even say four, for the chaperon does a little business on her own......
Honour's Worth ; Or, The Cost Of A Vow. By
Meta Orrod. (Chap- man and Hall.)—This is a bewildering book. The heroine has a month "that gave one a curious feeling of quietude and self-control," which seems an impossible......
An Every-day Heroine. By Albert D. Vandam. 3 Vols....
—This story is founded, wo learn from the title-page, on " Anne Rose, a Domestic Story, from the Dutch of J. J. Cremes." We did not find it at all easy to read this novel,......
The Lawyer's Nose. By Edmoni About. Translated By J. E.
Mait- land. (Remington and Co.)—This is an unfortunately selected sample of N. About's works for translation into English. In the original, it is a heavy and laboured jeu......
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