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Beauty And The Beast. By Charles Lamb. With An Introduction

by Andrew Lang. (Field and Taer.)—Though the name of Charles Lamb appears on the title.page of this pretty little reprint, it is by no means certain, as Mr. Lang remarks, that......

Miss Walmeb Urn's Offer. By Sarah Dondney. (blackie And...

—This is as successful a story as Miss Dondney has ever written, and perhaps its success is due to the fact that she has been compelled by the limited apace allowed to her, to......

Three Volumes Of Fairy-tides Demand Notice, And It Is Not

easy to say to which we should give the precedence. On the principle, how- ever, of place aux dames, we may mention first Fairy•Talea, by the Countess d'Anlnoy. Translated by......

A Great Mistake. By The Rev. T. S. Millington. (religions

Tract Society.)—Mr. Millington has now acquired a considerable reputation as a writer about and for public-school boys. His new book will add to that reputation, if only on......

Illustrations. Edited By Francis George Heath. (w. Kent...

is a certain most commendable quality of solid worth in this magazine, the second collected volume of which we gladly welcome. Mr. Heath does not disdain fiction; indeed, he......

In Girl Neighbours (blackie And Son), Miss Sarah Tytler...

us one of the most effective and quietly humorous of her stories. There is no plot to speak of, although the story contains an accident, an attack of fever, and a slight......

She Stoops To Conquer. With Drawings By Edwin A. Abbey,

and Introduction by Austin Dobson. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We may hope that this sumptuous volume is a sign of better days for the pub. fishing trade. Some few years ago these......

Count Renneberg's Treason, By Harriette E. Burch...

may be commended as a good book for boys, not because it would appear to have been specially written to suit their intelligence and interests, but because it is a well-told......

Lille And Ruth. By Helen Hays. (clark And Co.)—lillo Is

an Italian child whom some strange chance has brought to the cottage of a New England fishermen. There a hereditary taste for art develops itself, somewhat to the disturbance of......