Father Stirling. Two Volumes. By James M'grigor Allan....
Newby.)—To call this book a novel is simply an imposition. There is a alight framework of story on which is extended a long diatribe against Roman Catholicism and the Jesuits,......
Crinoline In Its Bissextile Phases. By Leichter Hock....
wicke.)—Those who like a laborious joke on a well-worn theme will be pleased with this production. There are original compositions and parodies, and mock commentaries on the......
A History Of Peeblesshire. By W. Chambers, Of...
F.R.S.E. (W. and R. Chambers.)—Mr. Chambers has done the public good service in producing this very handsome volume. A good county history, where no such work was previously in......
The English Poets. Edited By Robert Bell. (charles...
Co.)—Of this series throe volumes have been forwarded to us, " Shak- speare's Poems," " Ben Jonson's Poems," and the first volume of " Cow- per's." Type and paper are excellent,......
The Town Of The Cascades. By Michael Banim. Two Volumes.
(Chap- man and Hall.)--Some forty years ago the " Tales by the O'Hara Family " were among the popular novels of the period. Tho tales were Irish stories written by John and......
A French Eton. By Matthew Arnold. (macmillan And Co.)—it Is
pleasant to be critical on the work of so fastidious a critic as Mr. Arnold Therefore we can by no means pass by the fact that his title is a mere clap-trap magazine title for......
The Genius Of The Gospel; A Homiletical Commentary On The
Gospel of St. Matthew. By David Thomas, D.D. Edited by the Rev. W. Webster, M.A. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—A portly volume of rather common-place exposition, vastly......
A General History Of Modern Europe From The Beginning Of
the Sixteenth Century to the Year 1864. Fourth edition. (T. Jones.)— A very well compiled manual, intended for Roman Catholics, in which the history of the different nations is......
Books Received.
Select Anecdotes, by J. S. Lawrie (Thomas Murby)—Epitome of the Life of Our Blessed Saviour, by the Rev. J. G. Smith (Rivington)—Le Sport at Baden, by P. Fitz- gerald (Chapman &......
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