Stirring Events In History. (blackie And Son.)—there Are...
in this book, some of them familiar to most readers, some new, we should imagine, to all but a few. Such is the story of " Maldonata," belonging to the time of the foundation of......
In Perils Oft. By W. H. Davenport Adams. (john Hogg.)—the
"Romantic Biographies illustrative of the Adventurous Life," which Mr. Davenport Adams here tells over again, are eleven in number. The subjects are Sir Sidney Smith, Lord......
Some Magazines.
MR. GL tDSTONE, undisturbed by the roar of the conflict round him, sends to the Nineteenth Century an answer to Professor Dr. Reville, which he calls the " Dawn of Creation and......
Oulliver's Travels. Illustrated By Gordon Browne....
is happily out of the domain of criticism, and it is only necessary to say that the volume before us has been retrenched with a necessary regard to decency. The illustrations,......
Child Pictures From Dickens. (griffith, Ferran And...
volume of extracts from Dickens of some of the most famous of the children (the word being used rather widely, for it includes Smike and Florence Dombey) that are portrayed in......
Dust Ho ! And Other Pictures From Troubled Lives....
The first of these pictures puts before us the lives of the women who work in the dust-yards. There are worse occupations than this ; still it is one which will well bear a......
Scenes From Shakespeare For The Young. Edited By George...
(Alfred Hays.)—The preface, from the pen of Mr. E. L. Blanchard, explains the object of this volume. The illustrations, fourteen in number (but why no table of contents ?) are......
The Village Blacksmith. (griffith, Ferran, And Co.)—this...
edition of Longfellow's poem,—an authorised edition, it is right to say. Six artists have contributed the illustrations, which are twelve in number. They are mostly good, but......
Current Literature.
GIFT BOOKS. Three Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century. By the Author of Chranicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family." (S.P.C.K.)—The "three martyrs" are Livingstone, Gordon, and......
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