Memoir Of John Niche/. By Professor Knight (maclehose And...
Glasgow.)—Professor Nichol cannot be said to have left a distinguished mark in literature. He did well what he under- took to do, but he did little to justify to the world the......
When The Century Was Young : A Story Told In
Pen and Pencil. By M. M. Blake. (Jerrold and Sons.)—This is an interesting story of national events and of private fortunes, not unskilfully mixed up. There is a brave hero and......
Mottoes And Commentaries Of Friedrich Frobel's "mother...
Henrietta E. Eliot and Susan E. Blow. (E. Arnold.)—The " Mottoes " have been translated with a salutary freedom by Mrs. Eliot. Miss Blow has done the same in dealing with the......
A Clever Wife. By W. Pett Ridge. (r. Bentley And
Son.)— Mr. Henry Halliwell, a gentleman who lives by drawing for the periodical Press, marries Miss Cicely Westerbam, a " new woman" who writes novels of a kind which it is......
The Colour Of Life, And Other Essays On Things Seen
and Heard, By Alice Meynell. (John Lane.)—No competent reader of Mrs. Meynell's poetry can doubt that she is a woman of genius who has written some very lovely verse.......
The Builders Of Our Law. By Edward Manson. (horace Cox.)
—These thirty-five papers, reprinted from the Law Times, give the biographies of as many Judges, beginning with Lord Cottenham, who was Lord Chancellor when the Queen came to......
Ladies' Book Plates. By Horne Labouchere. (g. Bell And...
earliest specimen of a " label " is one that bears the name of Elizabeth Pinder and the date of 1608; the first "armorial ladies' plate" that of the Dowager Countess of Bath, in......
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