Which Originally Appeared In The Leisure Hour. They...
vast variety of useful and curious informatiom. We hear, for instance, that at Euston each booking-clerk takes on an average 450,000 in the year, and that the London and......
Anthropological Religion. By F. Max Muller. (longinans.)—...
prefixes to this, his second course of "Gifford Lectures," a preface in which he sets forth his view of miracles, and he devotes his first lecture to the subject of "Free- dom......
A Lost Soul. By W. L. Alden. (chatto And Windus.)—a
man who lives a selfish, scientific life—a mere automaton, he calls himself—wakes up to the fact that he has a soul and can sin. The cause of this is a woman found frozen in a......
New Fragments. By John Tyndall, F.r.s. (longmans.)—it Is...
say that there is some excellent reading in this volume. Professor Tyndall discourses on the " Sabbath," a lecture de- livered, not without courage, considering its contents, in......
The Fever Of Life. By Fergus Hume. 2 Vole. (sampson
Low and Co.)—The plot of Mr. Fergus Hume's novel is good, as most of his plots are, and the situations many of them dramatic and strong. The average novel does not depend so......
The Fate Of Herbert Wayne. By E. J. Goodman. (chatto
and Windus.)—There is something inexpressibly ghastly in the idea of an autobiography of a man who, while mad, murders his friend. Apart from this feeling, one may well admire......
A Brilliant Woman, By The Hon. Mrs. Henry Chetwynd, 3
vols. (Hutchinson and Co.)—We do not often get such good, careful work in novels as Mrs. Chetwynd has put forth in A Brilliant Woman. From the first to the last page it is well......
To Read Another Book About African Affairs. Unless They Are
under a bond of this kind, which it would trouble their conscience to break, we recommend this volume. Romolo Gessi served as an interpreter with the English Staff in the......
Through The Land Of The Aztecs. By "a Gringo." (sampson
Low and Co.)—The anonymous " Gringo" gives us a very fair, observant, and interesting description of the life and manners of the Mexicans, from the standpoint of a kindly though......
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