... most instructive Christmas or New Year gits of the season. THE SCOTTISH REVIEW Alexander Gardner, Paisley, and 12, Paternoster.row, London. The 24th number of this ably conductd review is by no means behind in the variety ...

... REVIEWS. A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY on Historical Prin- ciples founded mainly on the materials col- lected by the Philological Society. Edited by James A. H. Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society, with the assistance of many scholars and ...

... REVIEWS. GOOD WoRDs for May, (Isbister and Co., Limited), Is made jip of sixteen well-varied, and in somo instances, illustrated papers. Major B'ltler dis- courses in an interesting way about the Zulus; Mr Braesey, M.P., with his usual clearness, presents ...

... REVIEW. THE COMPLETE BIBLE COMMEKTABY We have been favoured with the first part of a cheap sixpenny edition, which is to be issued in 36 parts by Messrs Cagsell & Co., of The Complete Bible Com- mentary, edited by Dr. Ellicot, the Bishop of Gloucester ...

... REVIEWS, THE CASTLE LINE ATLAS OF SOUTH AI'ITICA.— Messrs Donald, Currie and Co. have just issued a most useful commercial FINDE to AND atlas of South Africa, and those vast newly-acquired territories 111 the HEART of the Continent which the energy of ...

... REVIEW. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW A Novr.i. BY UnsSLLL; published by dehn and llobert Max- well, Milton House, Shoe-lane, Fieet-street, London.—This is one of the best novels yet pro- duced by Miss Dora llus-ell. The plot is exceedingly unique, and, as presented ...

... REVIEWS. A BOOK FOR PARENTS.—In These Little Ones (Simpkin, Marshall and Co.), Mrs Powell, of Glanhowey, Llandrindod, has put forth a work which has for its chief characteristic a remarkable freedom from the goody-goody and merely theoretical matter ...

... REVIEW. LLAETHY GAIR. Pregethau gan y Parch Evan Thomas, Casnewydd. Pris 3 6c.— The Milk of the Word. Sermons by the Rev Evan Thomas, Newport. Price 3s 6d. This volume of Welsh sermons, by an English minister, is published at the request of the Baptist ...

... REVIEWS. An Illustrated Narrative of the Transvaal War is being prepared for the new issue of Messrs. Cassell & Company's Buitlet of the Ninetecntii Century, of which the first part will appear next week. With the first part will be given an excel- lent ...

... REVIEWS. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, in its current num. her, has a strong literary tone. Pascal's real position as a French cl saic and and as a contro- versialist of the first order, is felicitously told. What could be finer than this extract from the Je ...

... REVIEWS. The Quiver for March maintains its reputation as an excellent magazine for Sunday and general reading It would be difficult to expect a greater variety of articles than is contained within the 96 patres of The Quiver. And these articles and ...

... REVIEW. SOME OLD LOVE STORIES (Chapman and Hall).—In this, the latest volume from an ever raady pen, Mr T. P. O'Connor manifests once again the versatility of his powers. The title suggests fiction the book is plain fact, but fa.ct so charmingly presented ...