Fairy Tales From Par Japan. By Susan Ballard. (r.t.s.)— This
little book deserves the praise Mrs. Bishop gives it in her prefatory note. in the two introductory chapters Miss Ballard gives us some amusing glimpses of Japanese and......
Sernurns On Some Words Of St. Paul. By H. P.
Liddon, D.D. (Long- vi ew; and Co.)—Dr. Liddon's rank as a preacher is so well estab- lished that little more than a record of the appearance of another volume of his sermons is......
The Zone Of Fire. By Headon Hill. (c. Arthur Pearson.)—
The black paint is really laid on a little too thick in the picture of Captain Lucas Charters. He is a coward, a swindler, a murderer, and a traitor, playing all these parts......
A Girl's Awakening. By J. H. Crawford. (j. Macqueen.)— Mr.
Crawford's landscapes we can understand ; his figures are somewhat dim and indistinct. We have plenty of ornamental phrases about Narcisse, but they leave us not much wiser......
The Observer's Atlas Of The Heavens. By William Beck. (gall
and Inglis.)—In this volume we have thirty well-executed star- charts "in which nine thousand objects are accurately depicted, embracing the whole Star Sphere, and showing......
Twrnpike Tales. By C. L. Marson. (elkin Mathews.)—there...
a little of the irreconcilable in Mr. Marson's stories. His Own order fares ill at his hand. And of course we have the foolish old story of rich men enjoying "bequests which......
The New Guide To Bristol And Clifton. Edited By James
Baker. (Baker and Bon, Clifton.) —We have here a fairly readable account of old and new Bristol. The first, and most interesting, chapter recalls the important part played by......
The Everlasting Animals, And Other Stories. By Edith...
by Stuart Bevan. (Duckworth and Co.)—This is a good specimen of a child's book. The stories are brightly written, with plenty of conversations in them, and the print is clear.......
John Of Strathbourne. By R. I). Chetwode. (c. Arthur Pear-
son.)—It was, perhaps, a strange thing that an English knight should take his little son with him when he went campaigning in France. However, we owe to his eccentricity a......
Spectator. Vol. Viii. Edited By G. Gregory Smith. (j. M.
Dent and Co.)—This volume, containing Nos. 556-635, the second issue of the paper, which followed the first at an interval of eighteen months, brings the work to a completion.......
Roadside And River. By H. Mead Briggs. (elliot Stock.)—...
"Gleanings from Nature's Fields" have, possibly, just a little too much of the didactic in them. There are "sermons in stones," but the stones are best left to preach them......
The Ancient Ure Of The Greek Accents. By G. T.
Carruthers. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co ) —Mr. Carruthers'e book is too technical to be discussed in these columns, but we may give an idea of its general aim. Briefly, it is to......
The Bishops Of Lindisfarne, Hezham, Chester - Le -...
By George Miles. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.) — The Beginnings of English Christianity, By William Edward Collins. (Methuen and Co.)—Mr. Miles follows the lead of Bishop......
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