Sketches Of Illustrious Soldiers. By James Grant Wilson....
Putnam).—Mr. Wilson begins with Gonsalvo of Cordova, and ends with Ulysses Grant. As his volume of something less than 500 pages contains twenty - five sketches, including the......
Toxic 3 Vols. (samuel Tinsley.)—writers Of Novels Must...
it to heart that it is only for a brief, alas ! a too brief, period of life that one can stand three volumes wholly occupied with love-making. Critics, too, of a sober age even......
The Widow Unmaskvd ; Or, The Firebrand In The Family.
By Flora F. Wylde. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—Wo understand—not from ex- perience, for we have not been driven to criticise novels from ill-success in writing them—that it is the......
Ilistory Of India. By L. J. Trotter. (society For Promoting
Christian Knowledge.)—The only fault that we have to find with Mr. Trotter's book is one for which he is not responsible. To include the history of so large a portion of mankind......
Minutes Of The Sessions Of The Westminster Assembly Of...
No- vember, 1644, to March, 1649. Edited by the Rev. A. F. Mitchell and the Rev. J. Struthers. (Blackwood.)—This volume is edited from transcripts of the original minutes,......
Life And Correspondence Of The Rev. John Clowes. Edited By
Theodore Compton. (Longmans.)—The notable fact about Mr. Clowes was that he was a follower of Swedenborg. If that meant nothing more than the holding very definite notions about......
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