Tales Of Filial Love. By T. H. Barran. (darton And
Hodge.) — Very good tales, a trifle overstrained in language and sentiment, but with a good moral, and of some interest. Some of them read like trans- lations from the French,......
The Autumn Holidays Of "a Country Parson." (longman And...
This author is really so very prolific that he quite exhausts criticism. These are the essays which he has contributed to Good Words during the past year, bound up into a......
'loyal Children. By Julia Luard. (groombridge And...
dreadfully puzzled every now and then how to bring her in- formation down to the level of little girls' minds, but she has succeeded very well, and has given a series of very......
Love's Strife With The Convent. 3 Vols. By Edward Massey.
(Ward and Lock.)—This is as laughable a novel as has often issued from the press. The author's system is to set his characters conversing, say about fox-hounds, and then to give......
Lord Lynn's Wife. 2 Vols. (richard Bentley.)—this Story...
imitation, we imagine a conscious imitation, of Miss Braddon's style, and if it is to be regarded as the work of a beginner it gives promise of considerable future success. As......
The Stealing Of The Princes. (ward And Lock.)—a...
version of a middle-age narrative, which describes how two princely lads, ancestors of all the Saxe-Somethings, and therefore of a third of the Princes of Europe, were stolen......
The Holiday Keepsake. By Peter Parley. (darton And...
aeries of pleasant stories, generally in "Peter Parley's" usual style, information being conveyed through a narrative usually fictitious. Peter Parley's success has placed his......
Tales At The Outspan. By Captain A. W. Drayson. (saunders
and Otley.)—We are happy to see that this oddly named volume has reached a second edition. It is a boy's book of the very best kind, a book of adventure, and peril, and......
Clerical Elocution. A Natural, Practical, And Original...
By Charles W. Smith, Professor of Elocution. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This is a sensible and practical treatise, evidently the work of a cultivated man. His main principle......
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