Talks About Science. By The Late Thomas Dunman. (griffith...
Ferran.) —This book, though it contains a number of excellent and eloquent lectures on subjects connected with biology and geology, has an interest of a peculiar sort, which......
The Scientific Evidences Of Organic Evolution. By G. J....
M.A., LL,D., F.R.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—This very small book contains a popular and much condensed account of the main arguments which have been used to support the theory of......
Ssamoxs.—portraits Of Heroes. By The Rev. Arthur...
Co.)—Under this title, we have a small volume of ser- mons, called by their author a practical exposition of the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. They are very......
The Lies Stock Of The Farm, By J. C. Morton
and Others. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—The series of "Handbooks of the Farm," which began with Mr. R. Warington's excellent little volume on agricultural chemistry, is worthily......
Virgil's Eclogues And Georgics. Translated By The Rev. J. M.
King. (Stanford.)—It would bo painful to seek or find minute defects in a book like this, with its pleasant dedications, and its kindly mention of old friends and neighbours. It......
Self-surrender. By Mary Pryor Hack. (hodder And...
a companion volume to " Consecrated Women." It sketches in a strongly Evangelical spirit the lives of eleven women who have displayed patience in suffering, courage under......
The Garden That Paid The Rent. By Tom Jerrold. (matto
and Windus.)—This is a revised edition of a little book that first appeared in 18G0. It is interesting in style and instructive in matter. If only the author's advice and......
Alexander Raleigh : Records Of His Life. Edited By Mary
Raleigh. (A. and C. Black.)—For this work we have nothing but good words, and it is one of those for which the fewest are the best. All that is told of Mr. Raleigh in this......
Sketches Of Tranent In The Olden Time, By Z. Bands,
(T. Hogg, Edinburgh), supply a curious chapter of forgotten local history of East Lothian, or Haddingtonebire. It is strange to learn that in this .ebscnre village was laid down......
Hesperoihen.—this Book Is By Dr. Russell, The Well-known...
of the Times, and contains an account of a journey across the continent of North-America and back, made by the author in the summer of last year, in the company of the Duke of......
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