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The Pirate Junk. By J. C. Hutcheson. (f. V. White

and Co.) —Mr. Hutcheson tells a sea-story with plenty of spirit, and takes care to have a few choice characters in it. The Malays and Chinese, in this instance, heari ng that a......

The Tamers Of The Sea. By M. Edmond Mukomm. Translated

by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Sampson Low and Co.)—M. Mukoraro tells us in his preface how at Rouen he was directed to search for the records of pre-Columbian discoveries of America,......

The Affections Of Armed Powers : A Plea For A

School of Little Nations. By James John Garth Wilkinson. (James Speirs.)— The German likes his politics stirred with a metaphysical, the Frenchman with a scientific, spoon,......

Lost In African Jungles, By Fred Whishaw. (f. Warne And

Co.)—Having made twins the heroes of his tale, Mr. Whishaw takes care that they play their part in the "Comedy of Errors:* The comedy begins at school, of course, and is acted......

Four Delaneys—iris, Apollo, Diana, Orion—they Are...

and all have a. distinct personality of their own. Little Diana, with her imperious temper and fearless dis- position, is of course the heroine, and if at times she becomes......

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The conductors of Chambers's Journal, unmoved by the fierce competition of younger periodicals full of " smart " writing, and, if possible, "smarter" illustrations, continue to......

A Woman's Courier. By W. J. Yeoman. (tower Publishing...

John Talbot is sent by his sister to warn her lover, who appears to be mixed up in a conspiracy against William —the Forty conspiracy of 1696. Su& is the origin of a series of......