The Ghost-world. By T. F. Thiselton-dyer. (ward And...
innumerable traditions of ghosts, ghostly forms, and ideas relating to ghosts collected by Mr. Thiselton- Dyer, there are many curious and some beautiful legends. Beauti- ful is......
The Flying Horse. By H. Frith. (griffith, Ferran, And Co.)—
There is still room apparently for more histories of the "iron horse." Mr. Frith has collected some of the more remarkable inci- dents and events of railway history in this......
William Kitchin Parker : A Biographical Sketch. By His Son,
T. Jeffery Parker. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Parker was for some years Hunterian Professor of Anatomy. Men of science are well acquainted with his name ; to the public generally, he was......
History Of Clare And T. E Dalcassian Clans. By The
Very Rev. P. White, P.P. (M. H. Gill and Co., Dublin.)— We have in this volume an account of Clare from the earliest times, and it is such an account as an Irish county is proud......
We Have Received From Messrs. Frost And Reed, Bristol, Some
fine specimens of various processes of artistic reprodUction. There are two etchings by M. E. aaujean after pictures by Mr. Dandy Sadler, entitled respectively " The Rivals "......
Weird Tales From Northern Seas. By R. Nisbet Bain. From
the Danish of Jonas Lie. (Kagan Paul and Co.)---The student of folk-lore will be delighted with these gloomy legends of the Traug and the Gan-Finn, embodying as they do myths as......
Paris, Old And New. By H. Sutherland Edwards. Vol. I.
(Cassell and Co.)—This is a book that suits its subject very well. Paris is, beyond all cities of ancient times and modern, a city of contrasts. What gaiety, and what horrors !......
A Dozen All Told. By Twelve Authors, (blaokie And Son.)—
The dozen writers who furnish a tale each to this collection are all well known, and the sexes are equally divided. They are all good, for it is becoming a sine gut non of a......
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