Indian Fables. Collected And Edited By P. V. Ramaswami Raja.
(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The editor of this volume, the contents of which have already appeared in the Leisure Hour, illustrates by it the general belief that "the East is......
Harry Milvaine ; Or, The Wanderings Of A Wilful Boy.
By Gordon Stables, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Stables gives us a very lively book. The earlier chapters, with their short, incisive sentences, sometimes remind us of......
There Are Some Pretty Pictures, Done By Miss Alice Havers,
in Cape Town Dicky, by Theo Gift. (Hildesheimer and Faulkner).—It is the story of a little boy who comes from South Africa to live with his relatives in England, and of how his......
There Are Not A Few Readers, We Fancy, Who Will
be glad to renew their acquaintance with friends of their youth in some of Maria Edgeworth's tales. .And if the young people have not been spoilt by more stimulating food, they......
The Story Of A Nursery•rhyme. By "c. B." With Illustrations
by Edwin J. Ellis. (Field and Taer.)—" Jack and Jill," with their adventure with the pail of water, is the rhyme to which "C. B." gives the shape of a little story. It is of the......
Mr. Punch's Victorian Era, An Illustrated Chronicle Of...
of the Reign of her Majesty the Queen. Vol. I. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This first volume takes us down as far as the end of 1859. Punch appeared for the first time with the......
Sea - Song And River - Song : From Chaucer To Tennyson....
Estelle Davenport Adams. (George Redway.)—This volume is about equally divided between the "imperial seas" and "poor tributary rivers," as Shakespeare has it. The editor has......
The Palace In The Garden. By Mrs. Molesworth....
children, the eldest of whom is supposed to tell the story, find vast delight in a house into which they find their way through a certain mysterious garden.door. It is not......
Pau/ And Christina. By Amelia E. Barr. (james Clarke And
Co.) —This powerful story is, if our memory serves, constructed on much the same lines as one from the same pen which was praised in the Spectator some time ago,—" Jan Vedder'e......
The Adventures Of Herbert Massey. By Commander C. Lovett...
(Routledge and Sons.)—Gerald Massey (a name which, by-the-way, suggests quite different associations), captain of the Good Intent,' of New Bedford, is an English nobleman exiled......
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