In Spite Of Fortune. By Maurice Gay. 3 Vols. (samuel
Tinsley.) —Among the difficulties which press on the novelist, two seem to be peculiarly grave. Two people, genuinely attached to each other, and destined to be united, must be......
A Secret Of The Sea. By T. W. Speight. (bentley
and Son.)—Mr. Speight is more than generous, be is positively lavish and waste- ful. There is sufficient material in A Secret of the Sea for three ordinary novels of the......
Historical Records Of The First Regiment Of Militia. By...
G. A. Raikes. (Bentley.)—The " First Regiment of Militia " is the" Third West York Light Infantry." The regiment has never been quartered out of the United Kingdom, and its......
A Charming Fellow. By Frances Eleanor Trollope. (chapman...
younger Mrs. Trollope's "Charming Fellow " is quite as improbable, but not nearly so amusing a personage as the elder Mrs. Trollope's "Attractive Man." A great many years have......
First Work In English.• The Special Difficulty Attending...
to teach the grammar of a vernacular language has been insufficiently considered by teachers. Nearly all text-books on English Grammar are fashioned on the same model as......
Current Literature.
The Indian Alps, and How We Crossed Them. By a Lady Pioneer. (Longman.)—About three hundred miles duo north from Calcutta is the station of Darjeeling, and close thereto,......
Histcny Of Prince Edward Island. By Duncan Campbell....
Bremmer.)—This is a carefully compiled book on a little - known corner of our Colonial Empire, and as we are candidly informed in the preface that the "land question " is a......
History Of Merchant Shipping And Ancient Commerce. By W. S.
Lindsay. Vols. III. and IV. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The former of these two volumes deals with the subject of the Navigation Laws, pass- ing on in the later chapters to a......
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