9 DECEMBER 1893, Page 23

Messrs. Partridge and Co. have included in their books specially

adapted to the present season a new edition of Mr. R. M. Ballan- tyne's The Eagle Cliff. It is one of the best of this favourite author's more recent stories, being a very happy mixture of London and the Western Islands, fun, love, and adventure. Nor is there awanting seriousness, if not of the highest, certainly of a valuable order, as indicated in the last page by this statement as to one of the minor characters,—" Ivor has put on the blue ribbon." The illustrations of this story are above the average in books of this class.