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Little Miss Peggy: Only A Nursery-story. By Mrs....

and Co.)—" Little Miss Peggy" is a girl of five who, like Nansicsa, had the advantoge of having five brothers. Thanks to this, for it is doubtless an effective discipline, and......

Edwin The Boy- Outlaw. By J. Frederick Hodgetts. (s. W.

Partridge and Co.)—The most remarkable part of this book is the preface, in which Mr. Hodgetts credits Robin Hood with having been greatly, if not principally, instrumental in......

City Snowdrop.. By M. E. Winchester. (j. F. Shaw And

Co.)— Miss Winchester's book has suffered aomewhat, in a literary point of view, from a division of interest. The principal figure in her story is one that is invested with much......

The Little Tvonder•doe. By Jean Ingelow. (griffith,...

we have enclosed in a box (the appearance is somewhat spoilt by the large label) six little volumes, these said volumes con- taining fairy-stories, children's talk, an ingenious......

A Garland For Girls. By Loniaa H. Alcott. (blackie And

Son.)— it was a pleasure to catch Miss Alcott's name as we looked on the bookshelf. For Miss Alcott never needs to search far afield for tragedy and comedy ; she finds, after......

In Convent Walls The Story Of The Despensers. By Emily

Sarah Holt. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Miss Holt has given us here one of the careful historical studies which we are accustomed to receive from her. She takes, it is clear, infinite......

Cyril Dansley. By "miranda." (elliot Stook.)—cyril...

those wonderfully amiable, pions, athletic, and handsome youths who are to be heard of mostly in novels or stories written by ladies for the purpose of advancing what they......

Sukie's Boy. By Sarah Tymer. (hodder And Stoughton.)—...

open a book bearing the name of the author of " Oitoyenne Jacqueline," we may expect to find quiet, subtle delinea- tions of character developed in the course of the narrative,......