Bkickle's Modern Cyclopedia Of Universal Information....
Charles Annandale. (Blackie and Son.)—In these days of encyclopaedias and encyclopedic dictionaries, it must be regarded as rather a daring experiment on the part of the Messrs.......
The Descent, Name, And Arms Of Borlase Of Borlase. By
William Copeland Borlase. (Bell and Sons).—The Borlases seem to be able to trace a pedigree to which there are few parallels. William II. gave the lordship of Borlase to one......
Fifteen Hundred Facts And Similes. By F. F. B. Tinting,
B.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The work of supplying preachers with ready-made thought goes briskly on. The other day we had "a thousand new illustrations for pulpit, platform,......
American Literature, 1607 - 1885. By Charles F....
Poetry and Fiction." (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)— This second volume completes Mr. Richardson's valuable summary of American literature. As to poetry, Mr. Richardson thinks that......
Amos Kilbright, With Other Stories. By Frank R. Stockton....
Fisher Unwin.)—This volume bears the name of an English publisher, but has been produced in America. Mr. Stockton's humorous stories are well known, and two of the five here......
Current Literature.
The Universal Review for March has two most readable papers, one, intended to ridicule the special vanity of the nineteenth century, being as humorous in conception as anything......
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