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In The Young Colonists (routledge And Sons) Mr. G. A.

Henty takes his readers to South Africa. Isandula, Zlobana, Ulundi, and other familiar names reappear in his pages. The story will bear re- telling once and again ; and Mr.......

Cyril Hamilton : His Adventures By Sea And Land. By

Lieutenant C. R. Low. (Rontledge and Sons.)—The hero of Lieutenant Low's story, after passing through somb exciting naval adventures, receives a, cadetship in the East India......

A Band Of Three. By L. T. Meade. (iebister.) —the

" three" are three daughters of two itinerant musicians, the father an English- man, the mother Italian ; and a very pretty story it is that Miss Meade makes out of their......

The Strength Of Her Youth. By Sarah Doudney. (isbister.)—...

Dacie, discontented with poverty and dulness at home, goes on a visit to a wealthy aunt, and plunges into the gaieties of the great world. She is intended to make a great match,......

The Boy's Own Book (crosby, Lockwood And Co.) Is Too

well known to need description or recommendation. Let it suffice to say that the edition before ns has been brought up to the present time. The latest revisions of cricket and......

Nature's Serial Story. By E. P. Roe. (sampson Low And

Co.)— There is something felicitous about the conception of this book. It is the story of a happy love, indeed, of more than one happy love, linked with and illustrated by the......

The Sunday At Home And The Leisure Hour (religious Tract

Society). are two old acquaintances, to which we gladly give our accustomed greeting. The former has, as the title indicates, the religious, the latter, the secular element more......

The Woman With Two Words. By Sarah Tytler. (rontledge And

Sons.)—This is the story of the mother of Thomas a Becket, how she made her way from the East to London with only the two words, "Gilbert " and " London," and so managed to find......

On The Fo'k'sle Head. By W. Clark Russell. (chatto And

Windup.) —In these papers (whether they have all been published before, we do not know, but one, "My Lord's Adventure," we certainly remember), Mr. Clark discourses on a variety......

Golden Hours. By Mrs. Sale Barker. (routledge And Sons.)—...

we have a number of gaily-coloured pictures, the subjects being children in the country, at the sea-side, at home, enjoying in short, in various ways, with games, books, pets,......

- Uncle John's Adventures. By Mrs. Sale Barker....

Sons.)—" Uncle John " tells his nephews and niece how he went out to New Orleans (being, of course, shipwrecked on his way), how he went to a friend's house on the Mississippi,......

Daffodil And The Crodxaxicans. By Augusta Webster....

a little girl who, by help of finding an elf-cup, and fal, filling certain other conditions, is able to visit a certain frog-world under the water, and to return therefrom with......

Cassell's Saturday Journal (cassell And Co.) Is, We See, A

new venture. The volume, in which the year's issue is collected, is of a goodly size, and certainly contains a vast amount of various enter- taining reading. We found ourselves......

Every Boy's Annual. Edited By Edmund Rontledge....

Frith contributes to this volume a story of the Crusades, Major-General Drayson one which has South Africa for its scene, nnder the title of " The • White Chief of the Umzimvuba......