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My Godchild. By Mary H. Debenham. (national Society.)—...

Carteret is called to the deathbed of a woman who is one of a company of strolling players, and stands godmother to a girl whose baptism has been delayed. The child seems to be......

As Gold Is Tried. By Harriett Boultwood. (jerrold And Son.)

—This is a girl's story told' by herself, not without what looks like Bell-consciousness and affectation. Naturally it turns upon love. There is nothing very remarkable or......

Personal Reminiscences. By It. M. Ballantyne. (nisbet And...

us very pleasantly how he came to write books. Abundant leisure as a clerk in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company suggested the writing, first of long letters home, and then......

Syivia's Annual, 1893. Edited By Graham E. Tomson. (ward,...

and Bowden.)—There is plenty in this volume, which con- tains " Sylvia's Journal" for the year, to please all tastes. There is something about literature, something about the......

Darton's Leading-strings. (wells Gardner, Barton, And...

illustrated book for quite young children, made up of little sketches, anecdotes, stories, morals, and other matters that are likely both to amuse and to instruct. Some are......

The Story Of Howard And Oberlin. (w. And R. Chambers.)

—The story of Howard is one not easy to write. It is sufficiently well- told here, chiefly by the judicious abstinence of the writer from controversy. Howard, without doubt, had......

Winning His Freedom. By M. Bramston. (national Society.)—...

has had so much experience in tale-writing, and has shown such skill in the department of character-drawing, that we can scarcely feel Winning his Freedom to be worthy of her.......

The Churches Oe' Paris.* Miss Beale Has Written For A

wide audience on a subject which is generally regarded as reserved to the antiquarian or dilettante, yet in a way which makes her work something more than a gossip or a......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. A Pair Claiimant, By Frances Armstrong. (Blaokie and Son.) —This book comes in the guise of a "gift-book" and in the company of others of the same kind. It calls......

A Bitter Debt. By Annie S. Swan. (hutchinson And Co.)—

This, like not a few other of the volumes which come under the guise and in the company of "gift-books," is, to all intents and purposes, a novel. The heroine is a factory-girl,......

The Castle In The Carpathians. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low,

Marston, and Co.)—This story does not belong to that class of fiction in which M. Verne excels, the class which we may describe by the term, "scientific extravaganzas." He is at......

The Treasure In The Marshes. By Charlotte M. Longs....

Society.)—This is a story of treasure-trove." There are two finds. One is made by honest people ; the other by people who, if not exactly dishonest, are certainly not......

Out Of Reach. By Hanle Stuart. (w. And R. Chambers.)—.the

establishment in which Miss Esnib Stuart's heroine finds herself is, to say the least, of an unusual kind; nor are Mrs. Sampson and her daughter Fanny people that one meets with......