On The Whole, That What He Saw Pleased Him. He
learnt that the "increase of American railways was fabulous," but did not apparently consider their solvency. "The railway," he says grandly, "is the friend of all," except, he......
The Church And The Roman Empire. By The Rev. A.
Carr. (Long- mans.)—This volume belongs to the series of "Epochs of Church History," which is appearing under the general editorship of the Rev. Mandell Creighton. Mr. Carr......
Ten Years In Melanesia. By The Rev. A. Penny. (wells
Gardner, Barton, and Co.)—A very interesting book this, dealing with the native customs, the prospects of Christianity, the question of the labour traffic, and other matters......
Letters From Ireland, 1886. By The Special Correspondent...
Times. (W. II. Allen and Co.)—These letters were written last autumn. If they contain nothing that is strange to in, they cer- tainly present in a small compass an interesting......
The Mineral Waters Of Vichy. By Dr. C. E. Cormack.
(J. and A. Churchill.)—Dr. Cormack describes the various uses of the Vichy waters, whether taken internally or applied externally. There seem to be many troubles which may he......
Scheherazade A London Night's Entertainment. By Florence...
(Ward and Downey.)—The two principal char- acters in Scheherazade are so good that they far more than counter- balance any faults of conception and execution that may be found......
Our Homely Comedy And Tragedy. By The Author Of "the
Recreations of a Country Parson." (Longmane.)—Here are some thirty or forty years' " idylls," essays, reminiscences of the dead, and —less to be admired—encomiums of the living.......
Sudden Death ; Or, My Lady The Wolf. By Britiffe
Skottewe. (Swan Sonneueschein and Co.)—As one might guess from the title, this is a story of many murders. The doer of them goes about, now in her natural character of woman,......
Sketch Of The Forestry Of West Africa. By Alfred Moloney,
C.M.G. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Moloney is an official of the Colony of Lagos, and tells us, in language more expressive than correct, that "both temperature and other demands......
The Ring Of Gyges. By Charles Wentworth Lisle. (bentley And
Son.)—This is a romance, and, on the whole, a fair specimen of that kind of writing. Francis Neville finds the ring of Gygee, which had the wonderful property, as Horodotus......
His Helpmate. By Frank Barrett. (ward And Downey.)—the...
in this story is " Paul Potter Goddard," a capital specimen of the Bohemian artist,—of the sham sort, that is to say, for he has not much more art about him than hie velvet......
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