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With Others Less Familiar Or Of Quite Recent Date, But

tells them in a more systematic way than is commonly followed in compiling colleo- tints of such narratives. In the first place, we have a chart exhibit. ing the localities of......

Of Books For Young Children We Have Received Popular Tales

of Childhood, by Walter Harts (Dean and Son), containing the old favourites, "Cinderella," "Pass in Boots," "Riding Hood," "Blue Beard," "Sleeping Beauty," and......

Is A Handsome Volume, Printed In Gold, And Tastefully...

with page borders, having for frontispiece a representation of "the St. John in the Thorwaldeen Marbles." Dr. Maodufes Introduction is, for the most part, such as we should wish......

Nature And Her Servants; Or, Sketches Of The Aninial...

By Thoodorl Wood. (S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Wood, author of those most interesting and useful little books, " Oar Insect Enemies " and " Our Insect Allies," follows them up with another......

The Editor Of The Scottish Church Speaks Very Hopefully, In

giving the seventh number of his magazine to the public, of its prospects ; and the fact that the institution which he and it defend is now on its defence will convert hope into......

My Sunday Friend, Edited By Canon Curteis (a. R. Mowbray),

is the yearly issue of a magazine which may be recommended without hesitation, both for its reading and its illustrations.......

The Mountain. By Jules Michelet. (nelson And Sous )—this Is

a companion volume to " The Sea," from the pen of the same author. In the first part we begin with chapters on Mont Blanc, on this follows a description of Switzerland generally......

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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......

We Have Received The Yearly Volumes Of The Two Excellent

maga- zines published by the Religious Tract Society,—the Sunday at Home and the Leisure Hour. In the former we have, besides several serial stories, a set of papers on the......

Two Old Favourites, Andersen's Fairy Tales And Stories,...

Dr. H. W. Daloken, and Grimm's Fairy Tales, with illustrations by C. H. Weypert (Routledge), appear in two handsome volumes, which will not give the purchaser any cause of com......

Adventures, One Of Which Is Nearly Fatal To Him, On

that clement. At last his father finds him, and all goes well. The materials of the story are too well worn for any very effective use to be made of them.......

Suffice To Say That It Keeps Up Its Character As

one of the best things of the kind that is published. We may give a special word of praise to its most convenient shape. The annual volume of a magazine is often somewhat......