A Clue To Railway Compensation, The Value Of Estates, And
Parochial Assessment. By Thomas Morris. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—It is rare indeed for a critic to have to find fault with a book for being too short, but this manual might......
The Boy's Own Volwne, Christmas, 1868. (s. 0....
of this serial, which shows no falling off in the character or variety of its articles. In it Mr. Edgar finishes his tale of Cressy and Poitiers, in which the earlier part of......
Keats' Hyperion.*
THIS translation of Keats' " Hyperion " is dedicated by Mr. Merivalo to his friend Lord Lyttelton, whose translation of Milton's "Comas" into Greek iambics we reviewed a few......
The Old House In Crosby Square. By Henry Holt Two
volumes. (Sampson Low and Co.)--This is an attempt to unite a study of cha- racter with sensation ineidents, and not a very successful one. Stephen Thorpe, seeing his father......
C Urrent Literature.
Religion in Life. Discourses and Meditations. By Edwin Smith, M.A. (E. T. Whitfield.)—These discourses were delivered to the Upper Brook Street Congregation at Manchester, and......
The Gentle Life. Essays In Aid Of The Formation Of
Character. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The writer seems to have given this name to his little volume of essays because their object is to teach people " to be humble-minded, meek in......
The British Empire. By Caroline Bray. (longman And Co.)—a...
description of the British Isles and of all its various pos- sessions in Asia, Africa, America, and Australia. Intending, as we imagine, to supply the older pupils in schools......
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