Dhar Not Restored. By John Dickinson, F.r.a.s. (p. S....
A well and, on the whole, temperately written pamphlet. It seems to be undeniable that Lord Stanley in 1858, and Sir Charles Wood, in 1860, pledged themselves in the House of......
A Walk From London To John 0' Groat's, With Notes
by the Way. By Elihn Burritt. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—If the substance of this book was such as the title indicates it would deserve consider- able praise. Wherever Mr.......
Sonnets Onthe Months And Other Poems. By John Askham....
• —When a poet prefaces his poems with the statement that he eats his bread in the sweat of his brow, and that be knows that they are written under the least favourable......
After Breakfast; Or, Pictures Done With A Qui/l By George
Augustus. Sala. (Tinsley Brothers.)—A collection of articles which have "for the most part already appeared in All the Year Round, and Household Words," and are a fair specimen......
The Termination Of The Sixteenth Canto Of Lord Byron's Don
Juan. By Harry W. Welton. (Trnbner and Co.).—It is an old remark that poets always write good prose ; if the converse holds good, Mr. Welton cannot write poetry. The whole......
Bertrand Du Guesclin.* Tim Preface To This Book Bears The
date of February of last year, when the inhabitants of Charleston must have already begun to watch for the approach of the Northern fleet and army, and the author—an active......
Hymns For The Church Of England. (longman And Co.) — If...
tion were to set about compiling a book of hymns to be used by authority in place of the compositions of Tate and Brady, they would be much better employed than they are at......
Current Literature.
Notes and Letters on the American War. By an English Lady. (Ridgway.)—These are very sensible notes and letters by an English lady who knows something of the politics of which......
The Antediluvian History. By The Rev. E. D. Bendel]. Second
edition... (F. Pitman.)—The author, who is not apparently a clergyman of the Establishment, holds the first seven chapters of Genesis to be allegorical. Adam is a religious......
Wayside Thoughts. By A Christian Pilgrim. (emily...
rather hymns written by an invalid as "the recreation of weary days and the solace of suffering nights." They have all a directly religious character, and a tone of earnestness......
Guy Waterman. By John Saunders. (tinsley.)--" Guy...
kind of failure a clever novelist makes when he goes out of his natural line to enter on one which he thinks better suits his readers. Mr. Saunders's power, which of its kind ia......
Erratum.— " The Berkeleys."—in Our Last Number We Are Made
to say that "Maurice and his son Maurice" quarrelled with the citizens of Bristol. It should be "Thomas and his son Maurice."......
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