The Scottish Review (Volume 16) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The discussion is carried on throughout in a philosophical spirit, and Mr. Lowell puts in no special plea for any of the sytems he reviews. In his introduction, however, he is more outspoken, and states his preferences. He has some very sensible remarks on the theory of the socialists, and lays stress on the sacredness of individual rights, and on the results of their careful exercise and protection. The Seventh Series of Cameos from English History (Macmillan) by the author of The Heir of Reddyffe, deals with the periods of the Rebellion and Restoration. The chapters are fitly termed ' cameos.' The skill with which they are conceived, the art with which the minutest details are worked in, and the beauty of their literary workmanship fully entitle them to the name. We trust that more volumes will be added of a similar excellence. The newspaper reporter is no doubt a somewhat important individual and has important functions to perform, but whether he is that great and heroic being whom Mr. Penclleton would make him out to be in his Neu-s- paper Reporting in the Olden Time and To-day (Elliot Stock) is perhaps doubtful. But however that may be, there can be no doubt that Mr. Pendleton has written what must after all be called an attractive little book about him and his doings. The sketch of the history of Parliamentary reporting, though containing nothing new, is well done, and the book will afford entertainment even to those whom it fails to inform. One part of the newspaper reporter's work the author scarcely does justice to, and that is his heroic and generally successful efforts to give the gist of verbose speeches in the fewest words. The sixth volume of Blackie's Modern Cyclopedia is fully equal to any of its predecessors. No efforts seem to have been spared to make it...