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In A Sea-bird's Nest : A Series Of Stories, Some

Allegorical. By Frances Clare. (Skeffington and Son.)—This is a sequel to Miss Clare's "A Child's Pilgrimage ;" indeed some of the allegorical stories which appear in it have......

Good Luck. By L. T. Meade. (james Nisbet.)—mrs. Meade...

her usual skill in this story of a poor woman and her six grand-children, who live in a model lodging-house off Whitechapel Road. It contains more tragedy than comedy, for......

The Little Larrikin. By Ethel Turner. (ward, Lock, And Co.)

—This is a most delightful, pathetic, and humorous—yet neither too pathetic nor too humorous—story of the impoverished yet struggling Carruther family in Sydney. The life and......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. Making His Wag. By J. Macdonald Oxley. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—This is one of the American stories for boys which Mr. Oxley has shown such an aptitude for producing.......

The Green Garland. By Frances E. Crompton. (a. D. Times

and Co.)—The title of this story is unnecessarily mysterious, and when its mystery is cleared up it can hardly be very satisfactory to the ordinary boy or girl to find out that......

The Balkan States.* The Latest Addition To The Historical...

which is being published under the title of "The Story of the Nations" is an attempt to give in one volume a concise account of the four Balkan States, Roumania, Bulgaria,......