Neighbours And Friends. 3 Vols. By The Hon. Mrs. Henry
Wayland Chetwynde. (Tinsley.)—We hope that Mrs. Chotwynde does not set much value upon her plot, which seems to as about as weak and wildly Improbable an affair as we have often......
Queen Bertha And Her Times. By E. H. Hudson. (rivingtons.) —
The title does not exactly describe the book, for we do not reach Queen. Bertha or her times till we have got very nearly half through it. It is,, in fact, a description of the......
The Emigrant's Guide To The Colony Of Natal. By Dr.
Robert James Mann. (Virtue and Co.)—Dr. Mann, who is Superintendent-General of Education in the colony, writes a book which can hardly fail to be very useful. It gives full......
Current Literature.
The Mission of St. Francis de Sales in the Chablais. By Lady Herbert. (Bentley.)—The Chablais was " converted " at the end of the sixteenth century, that is to say, it came......
The Gowers Of Glenarne. 3 Vols. By David Rice. (saunders
and Ot'ey.)—Isolated scenes and passages in this novel are fairly good. Tho flood among the Welsh mountains, for instance, is well described, and Mr. Rico shows some little......
The History Of The Rebellion In Ceylon. By Captain J.
Macdonald Henderson. (Skeet.)—Tho title promised an interesting book. Captain Henderson is quite right in thinking that recent events in Jamaica give a special interest to an......
The Black Country.*
This is a book which for two reasons deserves a welcome from the public. It records the impressions of an intelligent and well informed American, with regard to an important......
Sunday Verses, By Joseph Truman (macintosh), Are...
and not without a certain vigour of language ; but we cannot go further in praise. Granny's Tale, by Harr jet Cave, is very poor stuff indeed The Harvest, an Allegory, by Mrs.......
The Chronology Of The Bible. By Samuel Sharpe. (j. Russell
Smith.) —Mr. Sharpe is so eminent as a Biblical scholar, that we are bound to give our best attention to what he advances. He gives us in this volume a. chronology of the reigns......
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