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Eeviews Of Hew Books.
. ""Farewell ! " said he , " Minnehaha ? Farewell , O my Laughing Water 1 All my heart is buried with you , All my thoughts go onward with you-, Come not hack again to labour , Come not hack again to suffer , Where the Famine and the Fever
Wear the heart and waste the body . Soon my task will be completed , Soon your footsteps I shall follow To the Islands of the Blessed , To the Kingdom of Ponemah , To the Land of the Hereafter ! , f
Plausible Prate , or the Adventures of an Insurance Agent . By Hed oe Chestek . Blackwood and Co ., Paternoster Row . —With the exception of Thackeray , we believe , no author of any repute has yet ventured upon the wide domain which Life Assurance presents for the development of the good -and evil parts of human nature , and therefore the theme in the hands of one skilled in the science is an
excellent one . In the work now under our notice , the schemes of the designing "Montague Tiggs , " of the day , and its mushroom : societies , are hit off in an able and racy manner , which cannot but have a salutary effect upon the public mind ; and the Assurance World of the Metropolis should , in our opinion , be grateful to the author for the clever manner in which he has endeavoured to prevent the public from being deluded and robbed when fulfilling one of the most sacred duties of society . The work is elegantly illustrated ,,
and deserves a more than ordinary attentive perusal . Greece and the Greeks of the Present Day . By Bi ) MO ^ i > About * . Constable & Co . —This volume , the ninth of Constable ' s valuable " Miscellany of Foreign Literature , ' is full of interest and animation and abounds in lively anecdotes . It more than confirms all that we have heard of the modern Greeks . While relapsing into comparative barbarism , they have lost most of the virtues of civilized life without gaining those of the savage . The following little anecdote will show
the difficulty of founding an aristocracy : — " When a minister passes through the Hermes-street on his way to the palace , the grocer or barber readily calls out to him , ' Ho , my poor friend ! how badly you are governing us P The minister answers , 'It is easy to see that you do not hold the handle of the frying-pan . '"
The Story of the Campaign of Sevastopol . By Lieut , -Colonel E . Bruce Hamlev , li . A . Blackwood and Sons . —This is a prettily illustrated reprint of those spirited papers which have already attracted so much attention in the pages of Blackwood ' s Magazine , In their collected form they are an invaluable history of one of the most remarkable sieges of modern times ; and as far as warlike operations are concerned , more trustworthy and more graphic than Mr . Russell ' s Letters . Our space only permits us to annex a description of " iKKEflMANN AiiTMIi THE KATTI . K " A glance at any part of the ground showed the slaughter to he immense . A
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Eeviews Of Hew Books.
. ""Farewell ! " said he , " Minnehaha ? Farewell , O my Laughing Water 1 All my heart is buried with you , All my thoughts go onward with you-, Come not hack again to labour , Come not hack again to suffer , Where the Famine and the Fever
Wear the heart and waste the body . Soon my task will be completed , Soon your footsteps I shall follow To the Islands of the Blessed , To the Kingdom of Ponemah , To the Land of the Hereafter ! , f
Plausible Prate , or the Adventures of an Insurance Agent . By Hed oe Chestek . Blackwood and Co ., Paternoster Row . —With the exception of Thackeray , we believe , no author of any repute has yet ventured upon the wide domain which Life Assurance presents for the development of the good -and evil parts of human nature , and therefore the theme in the hands of one skilled in the science is an
excellent one . In the work now under our notice , the schemes of the designing "Montague Tiggs , " of the day , and its mushroom : societies , are hit off in an able and racy manner , which cannot but have a salutary effect upon the public mind ; and the Assurance World of the Metropolis should , in our opinion , be grateful to the author for the clever manner in which he has endeavoured to prevent the public from being deluded and robbed when fulfilling one of the most sacred duties of society . The work is elegantly illustrated ,,
and deserves a more than ordinary attentive perusal . Greece and the Greeks of the Present Day . By Bi ) MO ^ i > About * . Constable & Co . —This volume , the ninth of Constable ' s valuable " Miscellany of Foreign Literature , ' is full of interest and animation and abounds in lively anecdotes . It more than confirms all that we have heard of the modern Greeks . While relapsing into comparative barbarism , they have lost most of the virtues of civilized life without gaining those of the savage . The following little anecdote will show
the difficulty of founding an aristocracy : — " When a minister passes through the Hermes-street on his way to the palace , the grocer or barber readily calls out to him , ' Ho , my poor friend ! how badly you are governing us P The minister answers , 'It is easy to see that you do not hold the handle of the frying-pan . '"
The Story of the Campaign of Sevastopol . By Lieut , -Colonel E . Bruce Hamlev , li . A . Blackwood and Sons . —This is a prettily illustrated reprint of those spirited papers which have already attracted so much attention in the pages of Blackwood ' s Magazine , In their collected form they are an invaluable history of one of the most remarkable sieges of modern times ; and as far as warlike operations are concerned , more trustworthy and more graphic than Mr . Russell ' s Letters . Our space only permits us to annex a description of " iKKEflMANN AiiTMIi THE KATTI . K " A glance at any part of the ground showed the slaughter to he immense . A