Illustrated Poems And Songs For Young People. By Mrs. Sale
Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a volume of extracts from poets old and new, illustrated with appropriate pictures. Many of the poems have certainly, and some of the......
Tales Of Revolution And Patriotism. By Jane Cowen....
London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.)—Some of these stories are familiar to most English readers ; some will be new. There are few who will not have heard of Wet Tyler, and Jack......
Brothers-in-arms. By F. Bayford Harrison. (blackie.)—the...
considerable amount of material, some of it interesting and curious, about the Crusades ; but she fails to put it together in a very artistic fashion. The book is readable, but......
The Lay Of St. Aloys, By Thomas Ingoldeby, With The
Old Letters and New Illustrations of Ernest M. Jessop (Eyre and Spottiswoode) is sufficiently clever in its way. We must frankly own that our liking for Ingoldsby—putting aside......
The Wanderings Of Yeneas. By Charles Henry Hanson....
book seeks to present the Amid in a popularised form. Mr. Hanson tells the story in an easy style that does not, however, in any way mall the original. He was scarcely well......
A Long Lane With A Turning. By Sarah Doudney. (hodder
and Stoughton.)—This tale is constructed with no little skill. There are a good many cross-purposes in the love-making ; but it is artistically managed, and we are made to feel......
The . Young Trawler. By R. M. Ballantyne. (nisbet.)—the...
with a spirited account of a rescue by a lifeboat, and it is maintained with considerable vigour. The old sea-captain, who lodges with the maiden sisters, is somewhat, perhaps,......
"david Roberts, B.a.," And The " Rev. George Croly, D.d.,"
are names that recall oar youth. The beautiful drawings of the one and the vigorous historical descriptions of the other will not soon lose their interest. We have received from......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. he Boy-Slave in Bokhara. By David Ker. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This story takes a place of its own among the literature of the season. The boy-slave, a young......
The Magazines.
THE Magazines of this month are readable, but not brilliant. There is not a first-class paper in any one of them, and most of them give evidence that contributors are a little......
The Westminster Review, October. (triibner And Co.)—the...
of this number contains an interesting article by Dr. John Chapman, of Paris, on "The Non-Contagiousness, Causation, and Scientific Treatment of Cholera." If the author can be......
We Have Received Various "christmas Extra Numbers" And...
Harper's Magazine, Christmas ; Good Cheer, being the Christmas number of Good Words, and consisting of a story, " The Prodigals, and their Inheritance," by Mrs. Oliphant, whose......
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