... this volume supplies. His earlier narratives were based on his own per- sonal experience as a clerk in the service of the Hudson's Bay Fur Company. The end of hris tether was soon reached in this direction, and he was then obliged to have recourse to ...

... to Halifax to make peace with that province. The next great scheme is the acquisition of the North- WVestTerritory from the Hudson's Bay Corn- pany and the constitution of Mlanitoba. In 1871 occurs the dispute with the United States about the fisheries ...

... that of ] his French prototype. More lucky or more devout than the latter, however, he reaches Heaven in the course of his wanderings through, space. Heaven, like earth, has its smiling green swards; many a stream of sunshine meander through the living ...

... PHILOSOPHICAL, AND TECHNICAL. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Her- bert Spencer, with a Biographicai Sketch. By W. H. Hudson. (Chapman & Hall.)- Collected Papers on Some Controverted Questions of Geology. By Joseph Prestwick, ?? ?? P .G. S. (Maemillan ...

... distinguished himself in the display of )la ethe qualities demanded by his office. he In any case, Mr Peel was not the i iy heaven born Speaker that contemporary flattery E a would make him out, to be. His authority over fof the House of late years was ...

... metamorphosed the poet into an enchanter horn of a maiden mnother, the M berlin of the Rom awn Empire.' The Eclogue he allows to be by no means per- fect poems; their imitative and purely con- ventional character is fully granted, but there pierces ...

... Natural History part 22 of n Popular Educator, part 29 of The World o of Adventure, part 10 of The Story of the X Heavens. part 11 of Heroes of Britain, part o 10 of 1 British Ballads, part S of ' Science for S All, part 30 of ' Cathedrals ...

... nay play acted : I don't ask for anything else. Be sn good, therefore, my Lard, as to tell the King that I entreat him to allow aem to rtmain in the position in which I was when his fresh favours reached me. Whatever happeoas -1 need not repeat the assurance ...

... are never tame; they are varied, and they follow one another in such quick succession that the 'reader's interest is never allowed tofat tig- As it his now presented to the public, the novel has the additional attraction of some forty illustrations cf:scenes ...

... Iloyle's Monuth. y 21. E. Ropes. Illustrations by J. Aytrn Synmington Felt-et qren Rags. By G. E. 1M. Vaungha..- Mn king Allowances. By ' Edith 2I. Edwiards.-Ti!C Construction of the Bible. By 7alter F. Adency, M.A. (London: ?? Sunday School tUnion.) 1 ...

... dyhse. Miss Townshend has very pleasantly 'described this side of his character and career, although her imagination has becn allowed too much license in the supposition that a certain Mr William Shakespeare may have ridden over from Stratford to ineet ...

... Kensington, 1896. Compiled and Edited by John Fisher. (London: Chapman & Hall.) INavy and Army Illustrated. VoL IV. (London: Hudson &K earns & George Newaes.) Etchings of Adld Ayr and some Ayr Char- acters. By Robert Bryden. (Privately Pub. lished.) By the ...