Illustrated Books.
Mn. ARCHIBALD HURD'S The Sea Traders (Cassell, 7s. 6d. net) is a popular history of our merchant marine, which young people will find interesting. It begins with the merchant......
Books For Children.
An invasion of Fairyland. By Alice E. Massy-Beresford. With pictures in colour by Jeannie McConnell. (Elkin Mathews. 7s. 6d. net.)-War and loss and sorrow are gently and......
Queen's Manor School, By Mrs. Everett Green (stanley...
net), is a good story by a practised hand. It is more serious in tone than usual, and there are some tragic incidents. But it is distinctly interesting.-In The New Prefect, by......
Mr. A. Albert Campbell Has Reprinted From The Belfast Tele-
graph some valuable articles on Belfast Newspapers, Past and Present (Belfast: W. & G. Baird, Is.), which are a useful contribution to the history of the British press that has......
Mr. Edward Step's British Insect Life (werner Laurie,...
net) is a competently written introduction to entomology, with many good illustrations.-The same author has compiled an excellent pocket volume on Animal Life in the British......
Mrs. Nina Seaman Has Compiled Apples And Honey (heine. Mann,
7s. 6d. net) as a gift-book for Jewish boys and girls. It is an anthology of tales, passages from Scripture, historical excerpts, and literary selections of special interest to......
The Girl Of The Pampas, By Bessie Merchant (blackie, Os.
net), Is an interesting story of life on an estancia in the Argentine, and of adventures among the Indians.-Angel Unawares, by Queenie Scott-Hopper (Harrap, 6s. net), is......
What Happened Then, By W. M. Letts (wells Gardner, 7s.
6d. net), is an attractive set of short stories, with amusing illustrations by Miss Honor Appleton. " How the Boys made Cakes," for example, relates how the youngsters put too......
The Fourth Form Deteotivea; By Christine Chaundler...
is an amusing story, in which some girls try to emulate Sherlock Holmes in discovering the thief who has taken various trinkets. They make laughable mistakes in the course of......
Some Books Of The Week.
Wake in this column doss not &sexually preclude subsequent salsa.] The tenth volume of the English Catalogue of Books, covering the five years 1916-1920, has just been published......
Things That Happened To The Stirling Family One Summer...
The characters are skilfully drawn, and though we are intro- duced to a large party of children of all ages, as well as grown-up people, they are all delightfully natural in the......
William Shakespeare And William Shaksper : Dual Or...
Edward Watson. (P. 8. King. 6d. net.)-Mr. Watson attempts in twelve pages to give " a précis of what is known with certainty regarding William Shaksper or William Shakespeare."......
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