Grassmere Farm. By Frank. (elliot, Liverpool.)—the...
lend much attraction to a story that has naturally little interest in it. Sundry people fall in love, and are ultimately married. Every- thing turns out well. Even the selfish......
Historical Warwickshire : Its Legendary Lore,...
Episodes. By J. Tom Burgess. (Simpkin and Co.)—The author of this volume (a well-known Warwickshire journalist, we believe) has been engaged for some eight years on what,......
Sister Agatha ; Or, " The New Catholic Teaching." By
the Rev. W. H. Pinnock. (Skeffington.)—The controversial tale is not an attractive kind of literature, but Dr. Pinnock avoids the offence which such books not uncommonly give.......
Our Indian Empire. By The Rev. S. Norwood. (samuel...
We cannot feel much confidence in a gentleman who thinks that Mace- donia was a tributary State of Persia in the days of the last Darius. The account of the Mutiny is written......
All The Way Round; Or, What A Boy Saw And
Heard on his Way Round the World. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Very likely it is a good thing for a boy of eleven years of age to go round the - world, though we must confess to an......
The American State And American Statesmen. By William...
(Ester and Learjet, Boston, U.S.)—This is a somewhat fierce indictment against the American politics of the present day. In effect it states that Government has fallen into the......
French Pictures In English Chalk. By The Author Of "the
Member for Paris." (Smith and Elder.)—Many of our readers will remember these brilliant sketches as they appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, and will be glad to meet them again.......
Real And Unreal: Tales Of Both Kinds. By Harriet Olivia
Bedding- ton. (S. Tinsley.)—We wish that the writer of these tales had told us which of them were real and which were unreal. They are all of them, however, of a very slight and......
Handbook Of Rural Sanitary Science. Edited By Lory Marsh,...
(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—There was a time, within, perhaps, the memory of the youngest of us, when, had the average " Guardian of the Poor" been asked for a definition of Rural......
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