11 DECEMBER 1886, Page 18

True Stories of English History. By Oscar Browning, M.A. (Griffith,

Farran, and Co.)—Here we have some hundred short accounts of important events and persons in our history. With these Mr. Oscar Browning has judiciously mingled some sketches of manners. The fault of the book seems to be that it is too" scrappy." Less should have been attempted, and more would have been done. But there is plenty of good reading, and the style is well adapted for the young readers for whom it is intended.