The Story Of A Fellow-soldier. By Frances Awdry....
is a short biography, intended for younger readers, of Bishop Patteson. Miss Yonge's "Life," admirable as it was in many respects, was certainly in its first form a somewhat......
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An Hist°, ical and Statistical Account of New South Wales. By John Dunmore Lang, D.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is the fourth edition of a work which originally appeared in......
Politics For Young Americans. By Charles Nordhoff....
Co.)—There is no reason why Mr. Nordhoff's letters to his son, of which this admirable little volume is composed, should not be valuable and useful to young Englishmen, as well......
Clarice Adair. By Mrs. Randolph. 3 Vols. (sampson Low And
Co.) —Certain novelists seem bent on making us see the high uses of rail- way accidents. It is thus that Nemesis follows the guilty, and not, as the old poet fabled, cloud°......
A Manual Of Botany ; Anatomical And Physiological. By Robert
Brown. (Blackwood and Son.)—This is a most complete and admirable manual, which we can heartily recommend to the students for whose use it is intended. It is divided into four......
History Of Christian Theology In The Apostolic Age. By...
Reuss. Translated by Annie Harwood. VoL IL (Hodder and Stoughton.)—As we reviewed the original, as well as the first volume of the translation of this work, some time since, we......
The Law And The Lady. A Novel. By Wilkie Collins.
(Matto and Windus.)--Mr. Wilkie Collins, presenting himself to the public as the autobiographer of a young bride, full of gushing faith in a bridegroom who has given her the......
A Woman To Be Won. By Athene Brame. 2 Vols.
(S. Tinsley.)— How are we to interpret the words "to be won ?" If in the strict sense of "that which ought to be, deserves to be won," we cannot agree with the author's......
A Foregone Conclusion. By W. D. Howells. (boston, U. S.:
Osgood and Co. London : Triibner.)—Mr. Howells's tale has at least all the fine qualities of humour and pathos and delicate drawing of character - which we expect to find in......