Sweet Lilac. By Marie Louise Eveson. (roxburghe Press.)—...
is, we are given to understand, Miss Eveson's first venture in fiction. It is told in a leisurely, lengthy fashion which is scarcely suited to the time. The style is cumbrous......
The Medical Environment. By Dr. Campbell Black, M.d. (h....
Glasgow.)—Dr. Black attacks with no little fierce- ness the hospital system, and certain practices in medical ethics and etiquette. He makes a case against both ; that a patient......
Edward Cracroft Lefroy. By Wilfred Austin Gill. (j....
twelve years ago Mr. Lefroy published a volume of verse with the title of "Echoes from Theocritus, and other Poems." It made a great impression on the writer of this notice, as......
Earl Rognvald And His Forbears. By Catharine Stafford...
Fisher Unwin.)—These "glimpses of early Norse life in Orkney and Shetland" are highly graphic, and are all the more interesting because they have to do with a by-path of history......
Molly Melville. By E. Everett-green. (t. Nelson And...
"tale for girls" is a good piece of work, well constructed and well written, thoroughly wholesome in tone. Some readers of romantic temper may object to the excessive courtesy......
The Responsibilities Of God, And Other Short Sermons. By The
Rev. F. F. Carmichael, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—These fifteen sermons, occupying altogether little more than a hundred pages. are vigorous and courageous utterances. "......
American Orations. Edited By Alex. Johnston. Re-edited By...
Woodburn. (G. P. Patnam's Sons.) — This second volume contains nine orations delivered during the period 1820-1852, on various phases of the Anti-Slavery Struggle. The first two......
Great Public Schools. By Various Authors. (e. Arnold.)—we...
particular fault to find with the selection of "Public Schools" for the purposes of this volume, except, indeed, that Shrewsbury does not appear in the list. Merchant Taylors'......
Oars And Spindles. By Annie Holdsworth. (ward, Lock, And...
is no little power both of pathos and humour in these sketches of life in a Scottish town where a manufacturing and a fishing population live side by side, sufficiently......
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