Berge's Complete Natural History. Edited By R. F....
(Dean and Son.)—This is an excellent book to place in the hands of a boy who has not only shown himself to possess an interest in natural history, but has made a reasonable......
My Schoolfellows. By Ascott R. Hope. (biggs And Co.)—mr....
has written so much about schoolboys and schoolmasters, that it is surprising to find he should bo able to publish a volume, essentially of anecdotes, which has even the......
Pixie And The Hill-house Farm. By Mrs. Gerard Ford. (c.
Gilbert Ellis and Co.)—These stories, the one of which, as we are told by the author, was written for children, while the other was not, are notable mainly as studies in Border......
Bonnie Boy's Soap-bubble. By Maggie Symington. (biggs And...
a good little story of the fairy kind, which runs on conventional lines. A little boy and his dog, with the help, of course, of a dream, find themselves in Bubble Land, and so......
The Volume For 1890 Of The Sunday Friend, Edited By
the Rev. G. H. Curtois (Mowbray and Co.), is deserving of a special word of commendation for the variety of its stories and general articles —in spite of their teaching......
Brett's Commentaries* We Do Not Altogether Care For The...
Commentaries on the Present Laws of England, which Mr. Thomas Brett has chosen for his new legal text-book. It sounds too much like a colourable imitation of the time-honoured......
A Fluttered Dovecote. By G. Manville Fenn. (ward And...
Fenn shows in this story a positively Pickwickian humour, the possession of which will come as a surprise upon many—indeed, upon the majority—of his readers. It is the story of......
Among Gift-books, The Annual Volume Of The Gospeller...
Co.) has a place of its own, The Gospeller is a halfpenny religious monthly of four pages of well-printed matter, composed of short articles, anecdotes, and verses. Each number......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. Old Mat's Lad. By L. Joyce Tomlinson. (Biggs and Co.)— This little book consists of two stories, of which the one that it - takes its title from is incomparably the......
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