Rambles Round Edge Hills. By The Rev. George Miller. (w.
Potts, Banbury.)—The site of the famous battle is commonly spoken of as Edge Hill. This name, which indeed should be in the plural, does not denote a single eminence, but a......
In Oban Town. By C. Mckellar. (alexander Gardner.)—this Is A
story of Highland life. There is description of scenery in it; there is sport ; there is a selection of poetry, in which the author seems to have a good taste ; and, of course,......
A Living Lie. By Paul Bourget. Translated From The French
by John De Villiers. (Chatto and Windus.)—M. Bourget writes a preface for this translation of his novel, in 010 he makes an apologia pro libro suo. The substance of it is this,......
An Uncrowned King. By Sydney C. Grier. (blackwood And...
"Romance of High Politics" will not, we imagine, appeal to a very large audience. To understand it, the reader must have more knowledge than is commonly possessed of the......
Nugt Liiterarim; Or, Brief Essays On Literary, Social,...
Themes. By William Mathews. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Mathews informs us that he was at one time librarian of the Young Men's Library Association at Chicago, and from first to......
Minutes Of The Bury Pi Esbyterian Olqssis. Edited By William
A. Shaw. Part I. (The Chetham Society.)—The " Classis " was a Presbytery consisting of the ministers and elders of six Lancashire parishes,—viz., Bury, Bolton, Middleton,......
Devonshire Wills. By Charles Worthy. (bemrose And Sons.)...
contains some heindrede ,of "annotated tests- mentary abstracts," ranging in point of time over about two centuries and a half (from the sixteenth century). The chief value of......
Peasblossom : The Story Of A Pet Plant. By Caroline
Pridham. (J. Heywood.)—Miss Pridham quotes the advice of "a German poet-philosopher, who bids us thoroughly study the unwritten history of a single plant until we know it by......
A Manual Of Italian Literature. By Francis Henry Cliffe....
Macqueen.)—Mr. Cliffe begins his detailed account of Italian literature with Dante, and carries it down to the present century. Among modern writers the greatest amount of space......
Four Generations Of A Literary Family : The Hastitts In
England, Ireland, and America, 1725 —1896. By W. Carew Hazlitt. With Portraits. 2 vols. (Redway.)—Mr. Hazlitt declares that he is indifferent to the opinions of the Press, and......
The Pocket Volume Of Selections From Browning (smith,...
Co.) has only one serious objection. It is too fat and heavy to go into the pocket, and it has notes which are not wanted in a volume intended to be always at hand. But in......
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