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  2. OVERLAND TO MANLY.

    The establishment of an overland route to Manly, such as would place that beautiful suburb within easy reach of Sydney, is a project which has now acquired considerable strength, and has advanced to a stage from which [?] ...

    Article : 1,419 words
  3. OUR BERLIN LETTER.

    Emperor William yesterday completed the 90th year of his life, and this fact is unique, in history. It was, therefore, only natural that the celebration of the day throughout the Fatherland was also unique in its ...

    Article : 2,502 words
  4. OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

    All other topics of conversation have been completely overshadowed by the railway disaster which occurred on Wednesday evening. It is the most serious accident that we have yet had; and, but for cool presence of ...

    Article : 1,622 words
  5. REVIEWS.

    The Abbe Liszt was born in the eventful year of 1811, on the 22nd of October, when a comet of unusual brilliancy was appearing in the heavens. The fact of the tail of the meteor seeming to light upon the ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  6. The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, "a Lifer." By OLINE KEESE. A new edition. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1886.

    Some interest will attach itself to "The Broad Arrow," being one of the earliest of colonial novels, and there is a strong similitude in many instances between Oliné Keese's volume and Marcus Clark's ...

    Article : 312 words
  7. Studies in Ancient History; comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage; an inquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies. By the late JOHN FERGUSON M'LENNAN. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1886.

    This book is a new edition of a work published in 1876. Addenda in the form of notes have been added here and there. In every chapter are to be found evidences of industry in collecting facts relating to ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. The Life of Words of the Symbols of Ideas. By ARSENE DARMESTETER, Professor of the History of the French Language and of Old French Literature at the Sobonne. London: Keegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1, Paternoster-square. 1886.

    For those who dabble in philology this small volume will possess a good deal of interest. It is an English translation of four lectures given by M. Darmesteter to small audiences in a London private ...

    Article : 222 words
  9. The Joyous Story of Toto. By LAURA E. RICHARDS, with illustrations by E. H. Garrett. London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50, Old Bailey, E.C., Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin, 1886.

    This is a channing book for children. Toto is a small boy, who spends the greater part of his time in the woods, and chats familiarly and fluently with the birds and beasts he meets there. Numerous ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. Sir Charles Grandison, Solomon Gessner, illustrated from the original copper-plates in 1778 and 1802. London: Field and Tuer, the Lea[?]all Press, E.C.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Hamilton, Adams, and Co. New York: Scribner and Welford, 743 and 745, Broadway.

    These impressions from the old plates answer the double purpose of illustrating the high position to which the art of engraving had attained over a century ago, and of presenting types of the manners and dress ...

    Article : 188 words
  11. THE SUPPLY OF SMALL-ARM AMMUNITION.

    Sir,—I have read the letter of "Solid Drawn" in your issue of Saturday last. He places the subject treated of most clearly and concisely before the public. The issue of ammunition was stopped by authority of the ...

    Article : 880 words
  12. NEWINGTON ASYLUM.

    Sir,—I was somewhat surprised at the paragraph [?] Newington Asylum in your issue of Thursday last, as it would appear from it that the whole of the credit is due to the Hon. F. Abigail, and as you state "it may interest ...

    Article : 333 words
  13. The Golden Land, or Links from Shore to Shore, by B. L. FA[?]EON, author of "The Nine of Hearts," "Molka," "Blade o' Grass," "Grif," &c.; with twenty-eight illustrations by Gordon Browne, engraved and printed by Edm[?] Evans. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., Warwick House, Salisbury-square, E.C. New York: Bondstreet. 1886.

    In the former work Mr. Farjcon tells pleasantly the adventures of a poor English family which, crowded but at home, sought and found comfort in Australia. In " Confidence" will be found the same felicity of ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. In the Wrong Parad[?]e, and other Stories. By ANDREW LANG. London: Kegau, Paul, Trench, and Co. 1886.

    This publication will be a most welcome addition to the library of entertaining reading. Mr. Lang has proved in "Letters to Dead Authors" that he is a humorist of the first order, and in this volume his ...

    Article : 722 words
  15. True Stories from English History from the Conquest to the present time. By OSCAR BROWNING, M.A., senior fellow and historical lecturer of King's College, Cambridge. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh (successors to Newbery and Harris), west corner of St. Paul's Churchyard. 1886.

    In the strict sense of the word there are no true stories to be obtained from English or from any other history, for the simple reason that no two historians ever entertained precisely the same opinion regarding ...

    Article : 343 words
  16. THE LOCOMOTIVE TENDERS.

    Sir,—I should much like to know what portious of the locomotives our local manufacturers can make. I have been informed that the wheels, boiler-plates, [?]es, &c.—in fact, all the engine parts—are imported, and merely put ...

    Article : 201 words
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