Practical Ply-pishing. By John Beever. Edited By A. And A.
R. Severn. (Methuen.)—This book was written and published more than forty years ago. The author lived near Coniston Lake, and was a remarkably skilful angler, besides being a......
Guide To Promotion. By Lieutenant-colonel Sisson C....
a book containing the necessary information for officers preparing for examination in regimental duties. The form adopted is that of question and answer ; the subjects are,......
Told By The Colonel. By W. L. Alden. (maclure.)—these...
sketches are excellent specimens of American humour. Perhaps the best and most significant is " Jewseppe." Jewseppe is an Italian organ.grinder, who is anxious to elevate the......
My Peril In A Pullman-car. By Major Arthur Griffiths. (h.
J. Drane.)—These are nine short stories, briskly told, but not of more than ordinary merit. The liveliest, and generally the best, is "An Express Idyll." •......
Annual Summaries Reprinted From The "times." Vol. I.,...
summaries are intended for the future, we have been always disposed to think, rather than for the present. A reader who is acquainted with the details of the events of the year,......
Of English Classics Selected And Annotated For Purposes...
we have received so many that it is impossible to give but the very briefest mention of them. Spenser's Paerie Queen, Book I., edited by H. M. Percival (Macmillan), is one of......
The Cambridge Companion To The Bible. (the Cambridge Uni-...
Press.)—This volume, taken as a whole, may be commended to the student. We cannot express our unqualified assent to all that we find in it-9.8, e.g., Professor Stanton's apology......
A Passage Through Bohemia. By Florence Warden. 3 Vols. (ward
and Downey.)—This is not a novel for every one, certainly not virginibus puerisgue. The Bohemia through which we are invited to pass in the author's company is not a sentimental......
Two Present-day Questions. By W. Sanday, D.d. (longmans.)...
Questions " are "Biblical Criticism" and "The Social Movement." That what Dr. Sanda.y has to say is well worth attention need hardly be said. On the first, if we may venture to......
British War-medals And How They Were Won. By Thomas Carter.
Revised and enlarged by W. H. Long. (None and Wilson.)—Mr. Carter carried on his work up to the end of the year 1860; Mr. Long has revised the old material and added new,......
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