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A Sage Of Sixteen. By L. B. Walford. (spencer Blackett

and Hallam.)—This very pretty story is republished, if we remember aright, from Atalanta. Nothing more suitable could be written for a circle of girl-readers. "When Elma went to......

A History Of The Ancient Town And Manor Of Basingstoke.

By Francis Joseph Baigent and James Edwin Millard. (C. J. Jacob, Basingstoke; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—The authors have devoted to the production of this work a careful......

To Him That Overcometh. By " Mona." (remington And Co.)—...

is merit in this story, though it certainly is not free from faults. One can hardly, perhaps, blame a novelist for using the recognised stock-in-trade of her craft—children......

The Locket. By M. A. M. Hoppus (mrs. Alfred Marks).

2 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—This is a tragic story of love, jealousy, and murder, but told by its accomplished author in such a way, with such graceful touches of life and......

Memoirs Of A Quaker Family. By Anne Ogden Boyce. (samuel

Harris and Co.)—This is the story of three sisters, aunts of the writer, and, we may add, the story, more or less, of a number of other people. There is, indeed, an embarrassing......