A Year In The Fields. By John Watson. (david Douglas,
Edinburgh.)—A vigorous and loving description of the gradual advance and decay of insect and vegetable life, with the annual movements of birds. Birds, indeed, the writer......
Morning Hours In India. By Elizabeth Garrett. (triibner...
little volume will help to give those wives whose desti- nation is India, a fair idea of what their lot is likely to be, and how household duties are arranged there. The writer......
Mr. Punch's Victorian Era. Vol. Ii. (bradbury, Agnew, And...
second volume includes the sixteen years 1860-1875. Mr. Tenniel, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, is the leading artist of this admirable series of drawings. One of the......
Austrian Health - Resorts, And The Bitter Waters Of...
Fraser Rae. (Chapman and Hall.)—This book, on Carlsbad, Marienbad, Gastein, Franzenbad, Meran, Konigswart, IschL Arco, and other favourite resorts of the elite — a tolerably......
A Romance Of The Queen's Hounds. By Charles James. (chatto
and Windus.)—A jealous and needy adventurer wishing to rid himself of his rival, lends him a fiery horse. This is the plot, and it is foiled by the devotion of a young lady,......
Scripture Animals. By Vernon Morwood. (john Hogg.)—in...
Scriptural animals, the writer has set him- self a difficult task. Many animals are only casually mentioned to serve some purpose, allegorical or metaphorical ; hence, in the......
A Dictionary Of Lowland Scotch, By Charles Mackay, Ll.d....
is a volume which we regret, for the sake both of its contents and of its author as an authority on all things Scotch, not to be able to notice at some length. It has grown out......
Lays Of The Highlands And Islands. By John Stuart Blackie.
(Walter Scott.)—The characteristics of Professor Blackie's style as a poet are probably well known to most readers of verse. His geniality, his pleasant egotism, his love of......
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