Outlines Of General History. By W. F. Collier, Ll.d....
Dr. Collier seems to have put as much of the history of the world into his small octavo volume as could be managed by human ingenuity. His leading facts are well chosen, and, as......
Love ; Or, Self-sacrifice. A Story. By Lady Herbert....
Bentley, 1868.)—Lady Herbert has written a pretty story, all the main facts of which she says are true, apparently to prove how wonderfully all events turn out well for good......
Sermons On Unity. By F. C. Masaingberd, M.a., Chancellor Of
Lincoln. (Rivingtons.)—In the Sermons on Unity we can see little merit but that of brevity. Three sermons in twenty-four small octavo pages,—that ought to satisfy the most......
Current Literature.
The great ornament of the October number of the Fortnightly Review is the exquisite poem by Mr. Morris called "The Two Sides of the River." For the rest, this periodical, which......
Johnny Robinson : The Story Of The Childhood And Schooldays
of an "intelligent Artisan." By "The Journeyman Engineer." 2 vols. (Tinsley.)—This book is certainly good fun ; but it is very little more. The "Intelligent Artizan " was sent......
The Sues Canal, The Eastern Question, And Abyssinia. By W.
Vesey Fitzgerald. (Longmans.)—Mr. Fitzgerald seems to have something to say that is worth hearing, but in attempting too much he fails to do jus- tice to himself. A good book......
Sermons By The Late Rev. Charles Watt, ..11.a. (william...
and Sons.)—Early death is always more or less sad and touching. Particularly so when the icy hand is laid upon the young rich in promise, of high aspiration, and with evident......
The Church Establishment In Ireland. The Freeman's...
(Duffy, Dublin.)—This volume is an important contri- bution to the literature of the great question of the day, and contains a vast amount of information about the history and......
Representative Men. By Ed Ward Watford, M.a....
nineteen men, three of whom, Thackeray, Faraday, and Whewell, are no longer living, as "representative men in literature, science, and art." This selection it would, of course,......
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