7 DECEMBER 1907, Page 10

The gift-book season would certainly be incomplete without the annually

recurring "Fifty-two Stories" arranged by Frederic H. Miles (Hutchinson and Co.) This year we have Fifty-two Excelsior Stories for Boys, and Fifty-two Excelsior Stories for Girls (5s. each). -From the same editor and publishers we have also A Book of Heroes : Boys and Men (5s.) This gives us new and old deeds of brave boys in South Africa, and such stories as that of Major Andre, Lord Nelson, and, going further back, that of the Chevalier Bayard.