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Found To Disappoint Them By Its Contents. These Seem...

adapted for young readers. The serial stories are "Uncle Silvio's Secret," by H. Atteridge, and "Freda's Conquest," by Frederick Macdonald, whose entertaining "Pink and Pearl"......

The Gentleman's Magazine Library. Edited By George...

"Bibliographical Notes," edited by A. C. Bickley. (Elliot Stock.)—How many volumes this library will consist of, the editor does not state; nor, indeed, does it greatly matter,......

The Girl's Own Annual And The Boy's Own Annual (56

Paternoster Row) are yearly volumes, containing the weekly issue of two papers, and are always welcome. Both have a special suitability to the audience for whom they are......

Unknown Switzerland. By Victor Tissot. Translated By Mrs....

and Stoughton.)—A pleasant book enough, and for the most part entertaining; yet absurdly misnamed, and as full of French conceit as an egg is full of meat. The "unknown......

Randolph Caldecott's Sketches. With Introduction By Henry...

and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting volume. In it we get, with the help of Mr. Blackburn's introduction, something like a complete view of Caldecott's career as a......

Possibly Find A Little Long, But Which Children Will...

like very much. There are children in it, of course, and dolls, who are taken with proper seriousness, and some good "grown-ups." Altogether, Right Side Up is a book of the......

Marcus Stratford's Charge. By Evelyn Everett-green....

has a certain interest, though perhaps it is made a little too long, and the characters are somewhat wanting in colour. But Mrs. Everett-Green's purpose is excellent. She writes......

Out Of "songs, Facts, And Legends" Which She Has Collected

and illustrated. Her first intimate acquaintance with the robin was made, she tells us, during her recovery from illness. Many birds came to her garden; but none which made......