Magdalen Wynyard ; Or, The Provocations Of A...
Averil Beaumont. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—We welcome a novel which keeps up throughout its length an interest which every rational reader will acknowledge without any......
Discipline And Drill. By Captain S. Flood Page. (h. S.
King.)—This volume contains four lectures delivered before the "London Scottish Volunteers" by the adjutant of the regiment. We wish every volunteer corps could hear words of......
Anne Furness. By The Author Of "aunt Margaret's Trouble." 3
vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—It would not be fair to make it a complaint against the author of Anne Furness that the early chapters of her novel are far more pleasant to read than......
Lakeville ; Or, Shadow And Substance. By Mary Healy. 3
vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Valerie Turner is a young lady of mixed French and American descent, who having been brought up in a French convent, is suddenly transferred, at the......
The Primary Synopsis Of Uaiversology And Ai Ate. By S.
P. Andrews. (New York: Dim Thomas.)—We shall frankly confess that we have not read the whole of this voluthe. But we have tried to read not a few paragraphs, and have found very......
Master John Bull. By Ascii:1u R. Hope. (nimmo.)—mr. Hope...
probably pillory us, with other critics who may happen to displease him, in a future preface. Even in sight of this danger we shall take the• liberty of saying that Master John......
Pen Photographs Of Charles Dickens's Readings. Taken From...
Kate Field, an American. (Trilioner ; Osgood, Boston, U.S.).—The most amusing part of this volume is the description of the queue which formed itself when tickets for Dickens's......
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The Thorough Business Man : Memoirs of Walter Powell. By Ben- jamin Gregory. (Strahan.)—Mr. Powell was born in England, and taken in early infancy to Van Diemen's Land. In this......