The Life Of Admiral Of The Fleet Sir William Parker,
1781-1866. By Rear-Admiral Augustus Phillimore. (Harrison.)—A naval career which began with the war of the French Revolution and lasted till past the end of the Crimean war, and......
American Pictures, Drawn With Pen And Pencil. By The Rev.
Samuel Manning, LL.D. (Religions Tract Society.)—This is a very interesting and entertaining volume. Dr. Manning travelled across the Continent by the Pacific Railway, and his......
The Library Of Spiritual Works For English Catholics...
intended to contain a series of the greatest devotional works of the " Catholic " class. A significant passage in the advertisement marks a change in the way in which some of......
Current Literature.
London Society for October has so many stories and fragments of stories, that it is difficult to give any adequate idea of its contents. The "Cricket Reminiscences" are not so......
Mans.)—songs In The Night, And Other Poems. (burns And...
have ventured to put these three volumes together because they have very much in common, and their " differentiation " would be a work of difficulty. They all exhibit a certain......
Major Vandermere. By The Author Of " Ursula's Love-story." 3
vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—A novelist may reckon it a success if he or she can contrive surprises for "constant readers," such readers becoming very acute in guessing at what......