14 NOVEMBER 1896, page 24

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......

Turkish Fairy - Tales And Folk - Tales. (lawrence And...

consists of Turkish fairy and folk tales, collected by Dr. Ignicz Kunos, and translated by Mr. R. Nisbet Bain in his usual competent fashion, is not only very readable and......

Half - A - Dosen Transgressions. By H‘lime Gingold. (fife...

the stories collected in this thin little book seems to believe in cynicism and realism, and to hold that "men," in the " worldly " sense, however much they may desire to impose......

A Son Of Ishmael. By L. T. Meade. (f. V.

White and Col- Mrs. Meade is developing a quite extraordinary power of pro- ducing novels dealing with the enterprises and detection of scoundrels. Her new story deserves to be......

Kilboylan Bank ; Or, Every Man His Own Banker. By

E M. Lynch. (Kegan Paul and Co.)-This is really a very clever, amusing, and perhaps not unprofitable combination or " stew " of the newer Italian economics and Irish humour,......