Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. The Red Mountain of Alaska. By Willis Boyd Allen. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—Treasures of gold, whether coined or in nugget and ore, are familiar "properties " of the......
Miss Yonge's " Slaves Of Sabinus."* Miss Yonge Has Taken
for her subject one of the most romantic stories of antiquity, the fortunes of Sabinus and Epponina. Tacitus refers to it briefly in his Histories, and promises to relate it at......
Everybody's Business. By Ismay Thorn. (blackie And Son.)—...
a pleasant little story about a cobbler, a cripple, and a good girl, and though the scene is laid in a slum, there is no reason why children should not enjoy the story, except......
Alexis And The Flowers. By Beatrice F. Cresswell. (t. Fisher
Unwin.)—This is a pretty book, nicely illustrated, and full of the stories, legends, folk-lore fancies, and the like which, in the course of time, have gathered about flowers.......
Through Thorny Paths. By F. A. Mckenzie. (james Knapp.)...
is after the usual style of temperance tales. The hero, if there is one, is either the sceptic or the reclaimed drunkard,—we are not sure which. It is a good little book, and......
Rex Raynor. By Silas R. Hocking. (f. Warne And Co.)—if
we are to have children changed at nurse, an incident which has been a little too much used in fiction, it is better to have it frankly done in the first chapter, as is the case......
Which Does Not Bristle With Adventures, Pleasant, Readab...
instructive. And such a story is that of Fred Hallam, a Scotch farmer's son. The details and the ordinary routine of a school- boy's life in a wild part of Scotland, the......
Edwin's Fairing. By Tho Rev. E. Monro. (mowbray And Co.)—
This is one of those pretty and pathetic old-fashioned stories that children like. Edwin, the hero, a poetically treated character, and Helen, and the crusty, but of course......
The Rosebud Annual, 1891. (j. Clarke And Co.) — The...
full of illustrations of every variety and size ; and on its illus- trations its popularity doubtless depends. They are good, some of them being very well drawn ; and all......
The Farm On The Down. By Anne Beale. (hodder And
Stoughton.) —In this volume Miss Beale gives us two really excellent stories. In" The Farm on the Down," an undutiful daughter, who has left her home because a foolish......
The Locked Desk. By Frances Mary Peard. (national...
Peard has given us here a tale of modern life, in lieu of the historical studies which we have been accustomed to have from her at this time. The motive of her story is well......
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