Heroic Legends. By Agnes Grozier Herbertson. (Blackie and Son. 6s.
net.)—We could have done without the first story, which has a painful theme ; but the charcoal-burner who dealt so roughly with Charlemagne, the Cid Campeador, Oliver and Fierabras, and the great story of Roncesvalles we cannot have too often. They are retold well, and well set off by Miss Helen Stratton's pictures.—When Lion-Heart was King. By Escott Lynn. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d.)—Here we travel over some of the same ground that " Ivanhoe " has made familiar. The wealthy Jew and the outlaws of Sherwood figure in the story, as also does the wicked John (here, by the way, presented as a rival of Richard III. for our admiration), and the Lion-Heart himself.— A Hero in the Strife, by Louisa C. Silks (R.T.S., 2s.), is a tale of Restoration times, in which our feelings are moved to sympathise with the persecuted Puritans. Jones of the 61th, by Captain Brereton (Blackie and Son, 5s.), brings us to the scene of the Mahratta Campaign, the hero being a band-boy who
carries, not exactly a Field-Marshal's baton, but a prosperous future, in whatever serves a band-boy for his knapsack.
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