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......
It Will Be Sufficient To Describe Briefly The Last "graphic"
Pictures of Randolph Caldecott (Rontledge and Sons). Every one remembers those little love-stories or comedies told by the pencil, slightly aided by the pen. Here we have, after......
It Should Be Sufficient To Say Of The Annual Volume
of the Magazine of Art (Cassell and Co.), that it is at least equal to the average of its predecessors. The frontispiece is an etching by M. Remus, after C. Van Haener's "......
John O' London A Romance Of The Days Of Roger
Bacon, by Somerville Gibney (Ward and Downey), is one of the most readable, most carefully written, most compactly put together, and most life. like historical fictions we have......
Rider's Leap. By Frederick Langbridge. (hatchards.) —mr....
able to tell a story well, has a pretty gift of humour, a gift much appreciated by the unhappy men who have to struggle with Christmas literature. These books have many good......
Under The Storm; Or, Steadfast's Charge, By Charlotte M....
(National Society's Depository) is in all respects worthy of the reputation of the author of " The Heir of Radcliffe." It is a historical romance—powerful, but also painfully......
The Old Violin. By Edith C. Kenyon. (nisbet And Co.)
—A pretty little story, this, of how a young girl takes pity on a poor lad who has the love of music in his soul, but cannot find expression for it, brings him into her father's......
In The Dashing Days Of Old (john F. Shaw And
Co.), Dr. Gordon Stables seems to us to imitate Captain Marryat, especially as a humourist, in a more marked manner than he has hitherto done. A young Scotch Highlander, Willie......
Banyan's Pilgrim's Progress. With Sixty Illustrations By...
B. Scott. (Nelson and Sons.)—The late Mr. David Scott illustrated the first part of the allegory ; and his work has been com- pleted, so as to include the second, by his......
Oder The Hills And For Away. By Mrs. Stanley Mather.
(P. F. Shaw and Co.)—Mrs. Stanley Mather tells, with digressions some of which might be spared, the story of how little " Lion," a five-year-old boy, runs away, how he falls......
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