The Two Lost Centuries Of Britain. By William H. Babcock.
(Lippincott, Philadelphia.)—Mr. Babcock is one of those American writers for whom the very early history of what they regard as their mother-country has a fascination, and he......
Tyneside Songs And Drolleries. By Joe Wilson. (thomas And...
Allen, Nevscesstle-on-Tyne.)—Tlxis is a collected edition of the "songs and drolleries, readings and temperance songs," of Joe Wilson, a Newcastle lad in humble life, who, both......
The World's Religions. By G. T. Bettany. (ward, Lock, And
Co.)—The author of this bulky but not unwieldy or ill-arranged volume does not pretend to be a profound thinker, or an inves- tigator of sociological phenomena who has made......
An Account Of The Conduct And Proceedings Of The Pirate
Gow. By Daniel Defoe. (Sotheran and Co.)—This is a very curious and interesting reprint of a book, or brochure, tile only copy of which is one in the British MUE3011131. It......
A Handbook And Atlas Of Astroneng, By William Peek. (gall
and Inglis.)—This is the most complete book on the subject of popular astronomy that we remember to have seen. Whether we can accept Mr. Peek's theory as to the origin of the......
Bible-women And Nurses. (cassell And Co.)—the "seventh...
useful periodical does not yield in pathetic interest to those that have gone before it. It describes itself on the title-page as "A Record of the Work of the London Bible and......
How To Read Character In Handwriting. By Henry Frith. (ward,
Lock, and Co.)—Even those who look askance at graphology will find this " grammar" of the subject to be very readable, and even curiously fascinating. It seems, at least at......
The Snake's Pass. By Bram Stoker. (sampson Low.)—the...
of the Lyceum has here followed up his excellent "Under the Sunset" with a good Irish story, full of storms, love, humour, dialect, villainy, and treasure-hunting. Miirtagh......
Historic Oddities And Strange Events. By S. Baring -...
Co.)—The two most important papers in Mr. Baring-Gould's volume (the . second series, our readers may be rerainded) are those entitled "The Patarines " and "The Ana- baptists of......
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