Dulcibel's Day - Dreams. By Emma Marshall. (j. Nisbet And...
story has the definite aim of showing what opportunities of doing good may be lost by dreaming of great things, and scorning the little duties which occur in daily life. This is......
"in All Our Doings." By Grace Stebbing. (john F. Shaw.)—
Miss Stabbing gives to her tale the second title of "The Golden Links of the Collects." With much ingenuity, more perhaps than is consistent with the spontaneity which a story......
A Christmas Posy. By Mrs. Molesworth. (macmillan And Co.)...
Molesworth has put together in this volume eight short stories, told with her wonted grace and command of pathos. It would be difficult to say which of the eight is the best.......
Geraldine's Husband. By Mary Macleod. (jerrold And Sons.)...
has told an old story over again with a certain amount of originality, and in a very graceful manner. Geraldine's husband married her under false pretensions,—false, and yet not......
Thomas Goodman. (marcus Ward And Co.)—the Book Is Printed On
dead-white paper without face,—a great improvement on the polished and dazzling material which is often used, and of which publishers on the other side of the Atlantic are......
The Story Of The Mermaiden. Adapted From The German Of
Hans Andersen, by E. Ashe. Illustrated by Laura Troubridge. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Miss Ashe has done her task of versi- fying the story with fair success. We must own to a......
Wonderful Escapes. Revised From The French Of F. Bernard,...
Original Chapters added. By Richard Whiteing. (Cassell and Co.)—Here we have collected forty-four tales of "wonderful escapes," beginning with Aristomenes the Measenian, with......
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