The Renaissance Of Art In. Italy. By Leader Scott. (sampson
Low and Co )—Mr. Leader Scott modestly calls this handsome volume, a quarto of between three and four hundred pages, an " illustrated sketch," and attributes any merit that it......
My Connaught Cousins, By Harriett Jay (white), Is Not An
improve. ment upon " The Queen of Connaught," or even " The Priest's Bless- ing." Miss Jay seems to have made a mistake in writing not a single story, but a collection of tales......
Constantia Carew, By Emma Marshall (seeley, Jackson, And...
is an autobiography in one volume, which deserves a word of commendation, as being much superior to ordinary religions fiction. It is a simple, every-day story of lay life,......
Songs In Sunshine. By The Rev. Frederick Langbridge....
Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Langbridge modestly commends his verses to the public, as being easy to read and made to sing. We accept both pleas. We may add that they are not only easy,......
A Short History Of The English Parliament. By Andrew Bisset.
(Williams and Norgate.)—How Mr. Bisset should have supposed that be was presenting the public with a history of tha English Parlia- ment, or, for that matter, with the history......
Shakespeare's Historical Plays. By Charles Wordsworth,...
Andrews. Vols. II. and III. (Blackwood and Sons.)— Bishop Wordsworth has completed in these volumes the tank of editing, with a certain amount of revision, excision, and......