11 DECEMBER 1886, page 18

True Stories Of English History. By Oscar Browning, M.a....

Farran, and Co.)—Here we have some hundred short accounts of important events and persons in our history. With these Mr. Oscar Browning has judiciously mingled some sketches of......

My First Curacy. By Ingellea Polkinghorne. (christian...

wealth Publishing Company.)—The author's hero seems to have had a good opinion of himself, for within a week of his ordination, he tells a correspondent, not without some......

"foremost If I Can." By Helen Atteridge. (cassell And...

is a certain difficulty about a foundling turning up in any probable, and at the same time respectable way, on land. Hence the favour with which the sea is regarded. But surely......

The Christian Year. By John Keble. (hogg.)—this Is A...

with a Memoir prefixed, and a Portrait. Of the latter we cannot honestly express our approval, but the memoir is very mach to the point, and could hardly have been improved......

The Secrets Of Finland, By Anna Johnson, Illustrated By"...

(London Literary Society), is one of the numberless stories belonging to the class of which "Alice in Wonderland " is the type. Aggie, the heroine, is left behind when her......

We Have Received From Messrs. Blackie New Editions Of Two

of Dr. George Macdonald's tales, At the Back of the North Wind, and Ralph Bannerman's Boyhood. Both of them are illustrated by Mr. Arthur Hughes, the former with seventy-five,......

*** We Are Desired By Miss Dorothea S. Sinclair To

state that her fairy stories, The Prince and the Goblin and The Enchanted Princess, are new, and not, as we supposed, republications. We much regret the mistake. Our excuse must......

The Late Mr. W. H. G. Kingston Abridged Into A

volume of some hundred and fifty pages the Trarels of Mungo Park, Denham, and Clapperton, and this has been republished by Messrs. Roatledge and Sons. It is well that these......

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