Russian Fiction. The Heroine, Unhappy In Her Family...
entangled in the plots of some Nihilist conspirators. Her enthusiasm is dispelled by her discovery of the vagueness of purpose and the personal unworthiness of her associates.......
A Century Of Electricity. By T. C. Mendenhall. (macmillan...
Co.) —Beginning about the middle of the eighteenth century, the writer reviews in order the various steps by which electricity has become familiar, and, indeed, almost a......
Mary Brooks Is The Country Mouse In Mrs. Herbert Martin's
pretty tale (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.) She is the eldest of the large family of Dr. Brooks, who has been reduced to comparative poverty by helping a scapegrace brother, and......
On Light. By Professor G. G. Stokes. (macmillan And Co.)—the
volume before us contains the Barnett Lectures delivered at Aberdeen during the years 1883, 1884, and 1885. Comment on them would be superfluous ; and any means of increasing......
Life Of Tobias George Smollett. By David Hannay. (walter...
—No one who has read "Humphrey Clinker" can doubt that Smollett was a great humourist. It is one of the most amusing tales in the language, and though by no means free from the......
Electricity. By W. Larden. (longmane, Green, And...
comprehensive treatise on the elements of electricity, containing the principal laws and theories. The mathematical part, indeed, is perhaps rather more than "the higher boys in......
A Breton Maiden. By " A French Lady." 3 Vols. (hurst
and Blackett.)—This is a story of the time of the French Revolution, when the Bretons stood up in defence of their King and their Church. It is not difficult to make a tale with......
Animal Biology. By C. Lloyd Morgan. (rivingtons.)—this Is...
of biology divided into vertebrate and invertebrate, types of each being given, and the anatomy and physiology discussed and explained. In the former division we have the frog,......
For Puir Auld Scotland's Sake (william Paterson,...
like a volume of Scotch verse, entitled "Horace in Homespun," which appeared some time ago, to be from the pen of "Hugh Hall- burton," a shepherd of the ()chile. Bat the most......
Mr. Haweis Displays As Much Rhetorical Vigour And...
tolerance of " orthodoxy " as ever in The Conquering Cross, as he entitles the fifth volume of his series, "Christ and Christianity" (C. Burnet and Co.) With his theological......
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