The Second Number Of The Holyrood Annual (gardner), Which Is
not one of the usual Christmas productions, though it has some features in common with them, is a remarkably substantial shilling's. worth. The four stories it presents contain......
Our Anniversaries. Arranged By Alice Lang. (religious...
yet another birthday-book, very tastefully got up, with "a selection of texts and verses for every day in the year." This selection takes in a wide range of authors, the......
The Search For The Talisman : A Tale Of Adventure
in Labrador, by Henry Frith, with six full-page illustrations by John Schonberg (Blackie and Son), is a genial and rollicking tale of how four cousins met, proceeded on their......
A Great Revenge. By Sidney Mary Sitwell. (s.p.c.k.)...
some effective pathos in this book. Richard Glover bears false witness against his friend, Oswald Grey. A time comes when Oswald has an opportunity of requiting this injury, and......
Patience Wins ; Or, War In, The Tvorks. By A
Manville Fenn. (Blackie and Son.)—The hero, a lad in his teens, goes down with his three uncles to take possession of a manufacturing concern which they have purchased.......
In Southern India. By Mrs. Murray Mitchell. (religious...
—Mrs. Murray Mitchell is the wife of a missionary working in the Madras Presidency, and this book records her im- pressions of a visit to the churches of Southern India. It is......
We Have Received Six More Of The Charming Little Volumes
to which Juliana Horatio, Ewing contributed the quaint, humorous recitatives and Mr. R. Andre the appropriate and characteristic illustrations. They are published by the......
The Parliamentary Election Acts For Englanl An T Wales. By
J. M. Lely and W. D. I. Foulkes. (W. Clowes and Sons, 1885.)—The present laborious compilation is undoubtedly the most complete presentment of Parliamentary Election Law that we......
The King's Windows ; Or, Glimpses Of The Wonderful Works
of God. By Rev. E. Paxton Hood. With 41 illustrations. (R.T.S.)—This book, which is well got up and well illustrated, is a reprint of papers which appeared originally in the......
"follow My Leader;" Or, The Boys Of Templeton. By Talbot
Baines Reed. (Cassell and Co.) —This is a "school story," and a fairly successful one. If it does not come up to our ideal, it is at least a creditable effort after it. One......
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