Arimas. By H. Peckwater, A.m. (simpkin, Marshall, And...
reading a few pages of Arimas, it struck us that the author had been happily inspired. Here, wo thought, is the Pocahontas and Captain John Smith's romance transferred to the......
We Have To Thank Messrs. Rivingtou For An Excellent Little
edition of the text of The Bucolics, Georgics, and 2Eneid of Vergil. Portions are published separately, at very low prices (twopence or threepence each), and the whole also in......
Lectures On German Thought. By Karl Hillobrand. (longmans...
lectures, which were delivered at the Royal Institu- tion in 1879, will have much interest for all of us who have any sort of acquaintance with the great German thinkers of tho......
The Neu: Truth And The Old Faith. By A Scientific
Layman. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—It may be doubted whether this book will please the more vehement advocates of the two causes which are compared, rather than contrasted, in its......
The Practical Fisherman. By J. Ii. Keene. (the Bazaar...
To speak of this book as far as we have been able to test it by our own practical experience, we think that Mr. Keene shows a genuine know- ledge of his subject. Ho combines the......
In The Ardennes. By Katharine S. Macquoid. (chatto And...
—Mrs. Macquoid with her pen, and Mr. Macquoid with his pencil, have given us a very charming volume. Of its merits as a guide- book wo cannot speak. Mrs. Macquoid has already,......
Old Drury Lane : Fifty Years' Recollection Of Author, Actor,
and Manager, 2 vols. By Edward Stirling. (Chatto and Windus.)—It is very clear that Mr. Stirling has been more of an actor and manager than of an author. Order, arrangement, and......
Ciceronis De Orators, Libor I. By A. S. Wilkins. (clarendon
Press, Oxford.)—Mr. Wilkins's notes are for the most part excellent, and students of Cicero will only wish he had been rather more liberal with thorn. Cicero's famous treatise......
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