Witness To The Deed. By George Manville Fenn. 3 Vole.
(Chatto and Windus.)—Here is a book which can only be de- scribed as a shilling shocker expanded into three volumes. A is about to be married to B, the widow of the convict C,......
Religion And Myth. By The Rev. J. Macdonald. (d. Nutt.)—
Mr. Macdonald brings to bear on his subject the experiences acquired during a long residence in Africa. Without attempting to determine the value of his book, we may welcome it......
Principles Of Biblical Criticism. By The Rev. J. J. Lias.
(Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Lias here defends the conservative posi- tion as to the date and authorship of the Scriptures. It may be studied with profit, along with the......
A Son Of Noah. By Mary Anderson. (digby And Long.)—
This is a tale of the world before the Flood, a theme already treated in verse by James Montgomery and Jean Ingelow (by the latter in a poem of much power, " The Story of Doom......
Disinherited, By Henry Cresewell. 3 Vols. (hurst And...
are certainly some good things in Disinherited, but we cannot allow that the plot is one of them. The opening of this story leads us to supposs that tie indignation of Blanche......
The Distinctive Messages Of The Old Religions, By The Rev.
George Matheson. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Matheson's object is thus distinguished from those aimed at by previous writers : "I do not seek the permanent elements of religion......
Japan As We Saw It. By M. Bickersteth. (sampson Low,
Mar- ston, and Co.)—The Bishop of Exeter, with his wife and daughter, visited Japan, where his son holds a see, and the daughter here gives a description of the country as she......
Spanish Cities. By Charles Augustin Stoddard. (chapman...
Mr. Stoddard has little that is new to tell us, he puts the old with freshness and force. There is, too, a certain element of novelty in all impressions of travel made on an in-......
A Lucky Lover. By The Author Of " Helen's Babies."
(Clarke and Co.)—This is not so much a story, as a lecture to lovers of the male-kind put into narrative form. The lover is lucky because he has his mistakes pointed out to him......
Claude Prescott. By Jas. E. Arnold. (digby And...
have the industrious and the idle apprentice going their ways and meeting with their appropriate reward. Of course, the in- dustrious one is slandered, and the father of his......
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