Rogues And Vagabonds. By George R. Sims. (matto And Wiadus.)
— No reader of this story will complain of a want of thrilling in- cident. Incidents abound, and the stage, so to speak—for the term seems to suggest itself naturally when we......
History Of Japan. By Percy Thorpe. (f. V. White.)—this Is
a compilation of very doubtful utility. The older history of Japan is accessible to Europeans in Dr. Dickson's excellent volume, and in the pages of the "Transactions of the......
A Happy Error. By Mrs. Hibbert Ware. 3 Vols. (f.
V. White.) — Here is one of Mrs. Hibbert Ware's realistic stories. It has not much of a plot, but then this is often characteristic of real life. Things move on without any......
The Teaching Of The Twelve Apostles. Edited, With A...
Introduction, and Notes, by Boswell D. Hitchcock and Francis Brown. (J. C. Nimmo.)—Of the several editions of the " Teaching " none is more worthy of the student's attention......
Our Cruise To New Guinea. By Arthur Kayser. (w. Ridgway.)
—Mr. Kayser went in the Nelson ' on the voyage which it made from Sydney to New Guinea last autumn, for the purpose of pro- claiming a Protectorate over New Guinea. And he gives......
Nell Fraser; Or, Thorough Respectability. By E. Iles. 3...
(J. and R. Maxwell.)—The relatives to whom Nell Fraser is sent are exactly the uncle and aunt of fiction, personages who, as Miss Yonge complains in her last novel, have taken......
The Remick Memento. With An Introduction By Robert...
and Tuer.)—This volume is constructed on the same plan as other " Mementoes " which have been noticed in these columns. Mr. Robinson's " Introduction " is too brief; but he has,......
Nature's Nursling. By Lady Gertrude Stook. 3 Vols. (kogan...
Trench, and Co.)—If the author would keep her political pre- possessions a little more in the background, it would be as well. The cause of the Pope's "temporal power" may be a......
Mrs. Keith's Crime. 2 Vols. (bentley And Sons.)—there Is...
thing truly dramatic about the conception and the execution of this story. Mrs. Keith is left a widow, with two children—a boy and a girl. She loves both dearly ; but her heart......
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