Auld Scots Bel/ants. Edited By Robert Ford. (alexander...
not merely a collection of Scotch ballads in the ordinary sense ; the author describes it not inaccurately—if to the English reader also not quite intelligibly—as "a 'reel-rall'......
Current Literature.
History of the Scottish Nation. Vol. III. By the Rev. J. A. Wylie, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The author of this book, who was a very ardent Protestant, has died before......
The Diaries Of Sir Moses Montefiore And Lady Montefiore....
by Dr. L. Loewe. 2 vols. (Griffith, Farrau, and Co.)—Moses Montefiore was born at Leghorn on October 24th, 1784; he died on July 27th, 1885, his wife having died before him in......
The Book Of Robert Burns. Vol. Ii. By The Rev.
Dr. Rogers. (Grampian Club.)—The second volume of Dr. Rogers's large work, concerning rather than on Burns, is quite as interesting as the first, giving biographies of such......
Thomas Jefferson On Public Education. By John C....
P. Putnam's Sons.)—This volume is one of considerable interest. Jefferson's views on education are worth considering ; not less so are his views on slavery. If his voice had......
The Magazines.
THE July number of the Nineteenth Century is nearly as good as a magazine can be, at all events at a time when magazines are so over-numerous that there are scarcely enough......
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