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Eleanor's Ambition. By Sargon C. J. Ingham. (wesleyan...

School Union.)—This is a short, very slight, and very uninteresting tale of a young lady, who is prevailed upon to give up her ambition of passing an examination in order to......

Simon Holmes, The Carpenter Of Aspendale. By J. Jackson...

(James Nisbet and Co).—This tale, consisting of 350 pages, is of the exaggerated " religions " type. Its spirit is represented in the following extract :—" At every house the......

Katie ; An Edinburgh Lassie, By Robina F. Hardy (oliphant,

Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh), is a simple tale, with illustra- tions, of humble life, the heroine being a domestic servant of a rough, but honest and loyal, Scotch type.......