... THE LIFE OF TAMES DIXON. * THE who would gain a knowledge not only of this man or of that man but of the great classes into which mankind is ever dividing itself should be a wide reader in biographical literature. By no other means can he gain an insight into the various forms of life and thought that exist outside his own little world. Though it is true that these forms are constantly ...

... A PEEP A T MEXICO. - IMR, GEIGER'S book makes no more pretensions than is implied in its ,modest title. He paid but a flying visit to Mexico, landing at Manzanillo, on the Pacific Coast, and passing through the capital to Vera Cruz; and he professes merely to record the observations that struck him in transit. But he more than performs his promise; his chapters give us the impres- sion of ...

... NEW BOOK/S AND NEW EDITIONS. The Great Conversers; and other Essays. By William Mathews, LL.D (Chicago: Griggs and Company.) Dr. Mathews, who is the Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Chicago, has the pen of a ready writer. He has evidently read a great many books, and his memory enables him to fill his pages with allusions and quotations. We do not find in ...

... k SERBIAN Folk Lore is not a book which will take a very high place among recent collections of traditional popular tales. The stories want that slight measure of viaisemblance and consistency which even a nursery audience looks for. They cannot bear comparison with M. Deulin's charming Flemish fairy tales, Les Contes du Roi Gamnbrinus, and yet they show traces of the literary treatment ...

... A PEEP A T MEXICO. # MR. GEIGER'S book makes no more pretensions than is implied in its modest title. He paid but a flying visit to Mexico, landing at Manzanillo, on the Pacific Coast, and passing through the capital to Vera Cruz; and he professes merely to record the observations that struck him in transit. But he more than performs his promise; his chapters give us the impres- sion of ...

... TTHE LIFE OF YAHES DIXON.X, 'HE who would gain a knowledge not only of this man or of that man but of the great classes into which mankind is ever dividing itself should be a wide reader in biographical literature. By no other means can he gain an insight into the various forms of life and thought that exist outside his own little world. Though it is true that these forms are constantly ...

... SERBIAN FOLK LORE. # SERBIAN Folk Lore is not a book which will take a very high place among recent collections of traditional popular tales. The stories want that slight measure of vraisemblance and consistency which even a nursery audience looks for. They cannot bear comparison with M. Deulia's charming Flemish fairy tales, Les Contes du Roi Gambrinus, and yet they show traces of the ...

... IN compiling the series of volwnes announced on this title-page, Mr. Southgate has proved that he understands the art of using other people's brains. His books are admirably fitted for a dentist's parlour or the drawirg-room of an hotel. In moments of intellectual lethargy or physical discomfort extracts from well-known writers on a variety of subjects may afford a slight distraction, and if ...

... 'WE learn from a correspondent in Vienna that an exhibition of the Lrtatest interest was opened on the 4th inst. in the building erected for the International Exhibition, comprising all the chief articles of produce and rmanufacture which enter into the existing trade between Europe and the East. China, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Tunis are all efficiently represented. Although not as complete ...

... TELEGRAPH AND TRA VEL:'. THERE are numbers even of intelligent people who are quite satisfied to know that a new project, allowedly of vast importance to the world at large, has been accomplished, without caring to inquire how the success was achieved. As regards the through telegraphic communication between London and India-the formation and development of which the first part of this book ...

... AEW b'ocAKS AND NEW EDITIONS. I he Great Corverscrs and other Essays. By William Mathevs, LL.D (Chicago: Griggs and Company.) Dr. Mathews, who is the Professor of Rhetoric and I Eglish Literature in the University of Chicago, has the pen of a ready Triter. Ile has evidently read a great many books, and his memory ?? him to 'il his pages with aillusions and quotations. We do not find in these ...

... { TELEGRAPH AND TRA VEL. * THERE are numbers even of intelligent people who are quite satisfied to know that a new project, allowedly of vast importance to the world at large, has been accomplished, without caring to inquire how the success was achieved. As regards the through telegraphic communication between London and India-the formation and development of which the first part of this ...