Boris The Bear Hunter. By Frederick Wishaw. (nelson And...
a young Moujik renowned for his strength and courage, is employed by his owners in killing the bears that infest the country-side. On one of these expeditions he is saved from......
A Tale By Miss Yonge.* Miss Yonge's Tale Is Deserving
of distinction among the crowd of rivals which claim notice at this time. It reminds us in a way, though not in the least by any repetition, of one of the most successful of her......
/ And My Master. By Mary Stephenson. (j. Hodges.)—" I"
is a poodle, ` Betsy ' by name, who tells the story of how her master was ordered abroad, how she meanwhile went to live with certain unsympathetic persons, how he came home,......
A Black Prince, And Other Stories. By The Author Of
"Told in a Verandah." (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Of these short stories, "A. Black Prince" is undoubtedly the best and longest. The rest are very unequal in merit, some—" The Rishi......
Three Little Wanderers. By Christabel R. Coleridge....
is one of the "three wanderers." His fellows are two grey squirrels which a French sailor had given him. Johnny is an orphan, without any one to care for him, but he falls upon......
Raphael's Madonnas, And Other Great Pictures. By Rad....
Bell and Sons.)—The author explains the purpose of his book thus. It gives, for the first time, the whole series of Madonnas that are, beyond doubt, the work of Raphael's......
Auld Robin The Farmer. By Walter Douglas Campbell. Illus-...
by H.R.H. the Princess Louise. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh.) —Mr. Campbell's ballad tells in spirited verse how "Auld Robin" won a curling match for the laird, who gives him the farm......
Young England. (sunday School Union.)—this Is The...
of this "Illustrated Magazine for Young People throughout the English - speaking World." We cannot pretend to have an accurate recollection of the character of the many......
The Double Emperor. By W. Laird Clowes. (asnold.)—this...
for its plot a, somewhat novel idea, which may, in- deed, be half suspected from the title. We are introduced to a hard working young Emperor, whom it is no disrespect to call a......
Fairy-tales From Grimm. With Introduction By S. Baring-...
and Drawings by Gordon Browne. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. Baring-Gould explains the three kinds of fairy-tales. First comes the unadorned folk-tale, taken down, as it......
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