The Maid A' The Mw. By Mrs. Compton Reads. 2
vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a very disagreeable story, well intended, we do not doubt, for vice is certainly made to appear odious ; bat scarcely, WO should think,......
Elementary Teat-book Of British Fungi. By William Delisle...
Sonnenachein and Co.)—It is ungracious, perhaps, to find fault with no carefully constracted a text-book-an this which Mr. Hay gives us ; still, we cannot help regretting that......
In Four Reigns The Recollections Of Althea Allingham,...
Emma Marshall. (Seeley and Co.)—This tale has something of the air of eelf-conaciousness which it in so difficult to remove from the autobiographical form of narrative, but it......
Experiences Of A Woolwich Professor. By Major-general A....
son. (Chapman and Hall.)—We confess to having been somewhat dis- appointed withthis book. We expected to find interesting or entertain- ing reminiseenees, but met with little or......
An Autumn Cruise In The .egeati. By T. Fitz-patrick, Ma.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—The contents of this volume scarcely corre- apond to the expectations roused by its title. A Cruise in the .Egenn should take one to the islands; but about......
Pausaniae Description Of Greece. Translated Into English...
Shilleto, M.A. 2 vols. (Bell and Sons.)—No doubt these volumes would have been the better for a careful revision. They contain errors and omissions. But they are certainly an......
A Strange Affair. By W. Oatram Tristram. 9 Vols. (ward
and Downey.)—This is a tragedy in prose,—a tragedy in which there is little or nothing of elevation or nobility, scarcely even of outward dignity, to redeem the horror. A......
Victims. By Theo Gift. 3 Vols. (hurst And...
another story—we have seen not a few lately—in which the chief charaeters are of Jewish race. Its chief interest comes from the difference of the French marriage law from our......
Is Love A Crime ? By Mrs. .tagger. (swan Sonnensolmin
and Co.) —Things are certainly changed since the days of our youth. Then it was the great reward of female virtue to marry a clergyman ; now a novelist has to ask whether love......
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