Striking Events In Irish History. By C. F. Dowsett. (kogan
Paul and Co.)—This is a decidedly misleading title. Scarcely a quarter of the book is devoted to history, and that of a rambling and wholly inconsequential nature ; the rest is......
Our Earth And Its Story. By Dr. Robert Brown. (cassell
and Co.) —This we presume to be the third and concluding volume of the series. Our Earth contains a great quantity of interesting matter, is plentifully illustrated, and is......
The Drink Question. By Dr. Kate Mitchell. (swan...
Co )—Dr. Kate Mitchell is a very earnest and enthusiastic exponent of total abstinence principles, and does her utmost to deal a heavy blow at the use of alcohol. All that she......
Index Of British Plaints. By Robert Turnbull. (g. Bell And
Sons.)—This is done on the basis of the "London Catalogue," there being three side-columns, referring respectively to the number in the "London Catalogue," the figures in......
Food In Health And Disease. By T. Burney Yeo. (cassell
and Co.) —Health is always an interesting subject, even to the naturally strong and vigorous, and to a great many of us it is liable to become too interesting. Since the English......
Raymi; Or, The Children Of The Sun. By Clive Holland.
(Henry and Co.)—This is a good story of its kind, a mixture of the real and the romantic. Both elements are well worked out : the real is so like to Nature, that we are ready to......
Current Literature.
We have received the second volume of The Century Dictionary. (T. Fisher Tinwin.)—This contains from " Conocephalus " to "fz,"—that is, it completes the first six letters of the......
Dictionary Of Applied Chemistry. Vol. I., "a - 0y." By T. E.
Thorpe. (Longmans and Co.)—Professor Thorpe deserves to be congratulated on the appearance of so useful a work. It is a pleasure to refer to a technical work of this description......
Star - Land. By Sir Hobert S. Ball. (cassell And Co.)—two...
of lectures which Sir R. Ball delivered in 1881 and 1887 to young people at the Royal Institution are here published, with illustrations, in the form of an introduction to the......
Stanley's Life, Travels, And Explorations. By The Rev....
Little. (Chapman and Hall.)—We cannot help thinking that, as Mr. Stanley is going to publish his own account of his explora- tions, it would be better to leave the field clear......
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