Had At Least The Merit Of Furnishing The Late Mr.
Grant with a series of subjects for his military novels. His plan was to mix the ingredients of love and war, and to mix them in such a proportion as might seem to suit the......
Merchant And Craft Guilds : A History Of The Aberdeen
Incorporated Trades, by Ebenezer Bain (J. and J. P. Edmond and Spark, Aberdeen), is a very interesting contribution to the municipal history of Scotland. Its author was for a......
The Most Notable Feature Of An Excellent Number Of The
Scottish Review--containing we may mention in passing, a most valuable historical paper on " Giordano Bruno before the Venetian In- quisition "—is a mass of hitherto unpublished......
Between The °chits And The Forth, By David Beveridge (black-
wood), of whose work, "Culross and Tulliallan," giving the topography and history of two Scotch parishes adjoining each other, we had occasion to speak very favourably a year or......
Brian Fits - Count. By The Rev. A. D. Crake....
scenes of this medisival romance are laid in and about Wallingford Castle, about the middle of the twelfth century. Brian Fitz-Count is the type of a Norman baron in the darkest......
The Tourist's Guide To Gloucestershire. By R. N. Worth. (e.
Stanford.)—This guide is one of a series which has been fully appreciated by a numerous public, and will doubtless be found as serviceable as its predecessors have......
Current Literature.
The English Historical Review, under the able and judicious editorship of the Bev. Mandell Creighton, is now firmly estab- lished, and has become indispensable to the careful......
We Like It All The Better Because It Does Not
make us think. There are people in the story who behave well, and people who behave ill. There are various characters,—an accomplished young diplomatist, a somewhat boorish......
What With " Tithe Legislation," " Ancient And Modern Church
Organisation," "Tudor's Philosophy of Church Life," and other papers, there is so much controversial force and fire in the July number of the Church Quarterly Review as to......
Madame De Maintenon. By Emily Bowles. (kegan Paul And...
is impossible to accept the writer's portrait of Madame de Maintenon as a true likeness of the original, and still less are we able to adopt her judgment of Louis XIV. and of......
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