Adventurous tales and moral sermons in late century reviews
A lengthy retrospective review praises Boy’s adventure literature and Mrs Hamerton’s Mirror of Truth and related works for their wonder and playful fantasy. It covers Christmas books for youth, Keble’s complex hymns, Garrick era essays, and multiple periodicals like Cornhill and Temple Bar, highlighting fiction, poetry, and sober essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamerton
Seeley, Jackson and Co
Shore
Religious Tract Society
Joan Keble
London
Cassell, Potter, and Co
Keble
Little Rosebud
Partridge and Co
Harrison Weir
Gilbert
December magazines reviewed with varied content and sharp critiques
The notice highlights Fraser’s varied issue and previews pieces on General Representation, Nursing Training Schools, and Agricultural Strikes. It notes strong essays by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Supernatural Evolution and a Manning letter on Prussia and the Vatican, with Canon Girdlestone offering hopeful analysis on agricultural strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraser
England
Alacmillan
Canterbury
Prussia
Vatican
Manning
Canon Girdlestone
Saturday Journal highlights on Holmes and Norse and more
The Saturday Journal features Oliver Wendell Holmes and varied literary pieces including Intemperance in France Bulbs by Mr Jackson and the Sherlocks tale. It lists Miss Tytler Summer Days in Norway Curwen Luther Festival in Thuringia Blackmore Old English Reformer Hales One of Our Noble Army of Martyrs and others. It praises religious magazines and notes Bruce Huddersfield portrait and Spurgeon appeal. The issue also welcomes the Sunday School World first part as the best new journal for teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Cate of Lucan
Cornhill
Myra
Bennet Langton
Langton
Linley Rochford
Tinsley
Lucknow
Olympia
Gentleman’s
Francillon
Dublin
London
Edwardes
Leah
Temple Bar
Pollock
Lilith
The
Victoria
Jules Verne
Stedman
Robert Browning
First Bible Society
Dawson
Gill
New Guinea
Mr. Wright
Saturday Journal
Oliver Wendell Holmes
France
Jackson
Kew
Sherlocks
Curwen
Thuringia
Humphrey Brothers
Dale
Congregationalist
Baldwin Brown
John Stuart Mill
Bruce
Huddersfield
Spurgeon
Christian Observer
Pike
Vince
General Baptist Magazine
Baptist Union
General ‘‘Baptists
Baptists
Sunday School World
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Review of Mrs. Willoughby's North Wind and Highland Verses
The critique praises Mrs. Willoughby for grace and tenderness while faulting diffuseness and overlong form. It highlights the eight Highland verse sketches in blank verse, noting strong passages, lyrical Scots touches, and failures in unreduced theology. The piece commends the Scottish ballad style Water-kelpie and Culbin images, while urging firmer finality and more prose treatment in places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willoughby
Henry
King and Co
Culbin
Parlour Menagerie
John Hogg
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