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From Crown To Crown : A Tale Of The Early

Church. By the Author of " The Martyrs of Vienne and Lyons." (Hatchards.)— This is but an ill-written story, which certainly does not commend to. its readers the great subject......

Isis And Thamesis.* To The Lover Of The Thames This

will be a very pleasant book, though only anglers perhaps will enjoy it thoroughly, for in these pages the zeal of the angler has flamed higher even, we think, than the zeal of......

Brownsmith's Boy. By G. Manville Fenn. (blackie And...

Fenn generally contrives to give us something fresh in his stories. Here his hero is initiated into the mysteries of gardening. As we follow him in his apprenticeship we, too,......

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The Mistress Of Lydgate Priory. By - Evelyn Everets...

Tract Society.)—This is the chronicle of a life from child- hood to old age very simply and unaffectedly told, and not without the quiet suggestion of more than one good lesson......

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to seize a British merchantman, and they are checkmated by the captain, who takes on board some man-of-war's men, and by their help thoroughly discomfits the conspirators.......

Salome ; Or, "let Patience Have Her Perfect Work." By

Mrs. Emma Marshall. (Nelson and Sons.)—Mrs. Marshall's hero is quite up to her best mark. Salome is a very well-drawn character ; we recognise her reality at once. Nothing could......

Fritz And Eric; Or, The Brother Crusoes. By John C.

Hutcheson. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This book is not improved by having had to be extended to regulation length (120,000 words, we should say, according to the curious reckoning......

That Voyages First To The North And Then To The

South. They meet with plenty of adventure,—especially in their southern travellings, when they encounter aggressive savages. Then there are elements of entertainment in their......

The Congo Rovers. By Harry Collingwood. (blackie And...

" story of the slave squadron " is a capital book of its kind. A young lad gets his appointment as midshipman to a new sloop-of-war, the 'Daphne,' and finds himself bound for......

Cricket : A Tale Of Humble Life. By Silas Hocking.

(Warne and Co.)—" Cricket," our readers must understand, is the name of is girl, not of a game, in this particular connection. She is the daughter of a Welsh labourer who......