Diary And Correspondence Of Samuel Pepys. With Notes By The
Rev. Mynon Bright. Vol. I. (Bickers.)—This is the first instalment of an edition to be completed in six volumes, and that will contain the whole, or nearly the whole, of the......
Below The Salt : A Novel. By Lady Wood. (chapman
and Hall.)—Lady Wood sometimes runs into extravagance in her plots, and allows her style to drift into carelessness ; but her stories always interest us, and we never fail to......
John Knox And The Church Of England. By Peter Lorrimer,
D.D. (Henry S. King and Co.)—This is a very important volume. Dr. Lorrimer found in Dr. Williams's library in London a set of papers which have never before been published, and......
Nero. By W. W. Story. (blackwood.)—mr. Story Has Chosen As
a subject for a drama the story of Nero, because it seemed to him especially suitable for dramatic treatment. In this estimate we do not wholly agree with him. The story is not......
John Holdsworth, Chief Mate. By The Author Of "jilted."...
Low and Co.)—The author of "Jilted " is not a common-place writer, and we feel convinced that he will do much better things than either his pleasant and amusing first novel, or......