Lancelot, With Sonnets And Other Poems. By William...
(Moron.)—The versification in this volume is very good. The poems. are quite free from any exhibition of bad taste ; there is always a mean- ing in the lines, which is really......
Current Literat Ure.
The Emotions and the Will. By Alexander Bain, M.A. Second Edi- tion. (Longmans.)--In this new edition of his elaborate work Mr. Bain has made extensive alterations. He has had......
A History Of Arcbti'ecture.*
hasy of our readers wilLhave a pleasant recolleotion of. Mr. Fer- gusson's Handbook of Architecture, as a work whose bright- wood engravings brought back to memory many a vivid......
The Humbugs Of The World By P. T. Barnum. (rotten.)—a
wretchedly poor book, evidently made up by some colleague of Mr. Barnum in order to sell. The bulk of it consists of badly written accounts of well known impostors, a very old......
France On The Eve Of The Great Revolution. By Admiral
Sir G. Collier. (Bentley.)—A very thin book. The Admiral, a gentleman of the old school, full of prejudices, who thought travel with no object except travel a senseless......
Walter Goring. By Annie Thomas. (chapman And Hall.)--one...
Miss Thomas's stories of flirtation and intrigue, told with undeniable spirit, and a freedom which reaches the limit of the conventional. The world will one day perhaps be tired......
Dr. Weld. By M. M. Bell. (warne And Co.)—a Wildly
sensational story, which the writer says was not founded on the case of Dr. Pritchard,. but which reads exactly as if it had been. There is power of a kind in• it, but it is......
The King And People Of Fiji. By Rev. J. Waterhouse.
(Wesleyan Conference Office.)—If Mr. Waterhouse had put his story into any shape, he could not have failed to make a great success. Some of the Incidents in the volume are......
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