21 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 11

We have received a new edition of The Three Midshipmen,

by W. H. G. Kingston (Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.) This is one of the best of Mr. Kingston's stories, all of them in the front rank of this kind of literature. The "new edition" should be found elsewhere than in the advertisement pages at the end of the volume. There are some spirited illustrations, in which the ships are better than the men.—Another new edition is The Farm in the Karoo, by Mrs. Carey Hobson (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) The story was written and published some years ago, and is not less interesting because its pages depict a condition of things not a little different from that which now exists.