We Have Received The Art Of Practical Brick Cutting And
Setting, by Adam Hammond (Crosby Lockwood and Son), " showing the most advanced methods of setting out, taking off, and applying bevels for arched work, groins, columns,......
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......
The History Of Pedagogy. By Gabriel Compayre. Translated...
H. Payne, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The author is a Professor in a French normal school ; the translator holds an American chair of "the Science and Art of Teaching."......
Classical Coincidences. By F. C. Gretton, B.d. (elliot...
Gretton, who describes himself as an old teacher, has put together a pleasant little book, the result of a wide and varied reading. Hannibal at Saguntum and Henry at Agincourt......
In The Series Of "south Kensington Catalogues," We Have A
Catalogue of the Printed Books Bequeathed by John Forster, LL.D. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Forster died in 1876, at the age of sixty-four, and bequeathed his library,......
Hunting In Hard Times. By G. Bowers. (chapman And Hall.)
—" Brother John, a bachelor, and myself, a confirmed old-maid," take a hunting-box for the season ; and the "confirmed old-maid" portrays their adventures with her pencil,......
Included In The Space Of Two Or Three. Who Is
sufficient for these things ? As for the industry of the editor, it is beyond all com- prehension. He is, if we mistake not, joint conductor of one, if not two other huge works......
John G. Paton, Missionary To The New Hebrides : An
Autobiography. Edited by his Brother. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume opens with a very pleasant picture of Scottish peasant-life and Scottish piety in the opening years of......
Great Writers : Life Of Schiller. By Henry W. Nevinson.
(W. Scott.)—As a cabinet portrait of Schiller, this volume will be welcome to the English reader, and all the more so since, in com- mon with the series to which it belongs, it......
The Bible In The Pacific. By The Rev. A. W.
Murray. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—This is an account of missionary enterprise in the islands of the Pacific, with a special view to the work of Bible translation. A vast amount of......
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