Self-sacrifice, Which Is The Prevailing Note Of "his...
becomes a positive fanaticism in A Promise Kept, by M. E. Palgrav , (National Society's Depository). Stephen Searle is very angry, petty near the end of the story, with the......
Miss Jane T. Stoddart, Who Writes In Cheviot's Glens...
Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh), does not err on the side of pro- lixity, although her story of Scotch farmers, Scotch gipsies, Scotch lovers, and Scotch ministers is somewhat......
Stories Of Old Renown, By Aseett It. Hope, And Chivalric
Bays, by E. S. Brooke (Mackie and Son), may be bracketed together, on account both of a certain similarity of subject and of excellence in literary execution. The differences......
Nellie Graham. By Ella Stone. (james Nisbet.)—this Is An...
and well-written story of a self.saorificing girl with a self-indulgent brother, who, after a temporarily brilliant and suc- cessful career as a barrister, commits forgery, and,......
Golden Gates, By H. L. Ridley (john F. Shaw And
Co.), is a fairly good story of the "good" kind. There is a " haughty " squire in it who bears a slight resemblance to Lord Dorineourt in Mrs. Barnett's " Little Lord......
Aboard The Atalanta,' By Henry Frith (blackie And Son) Is
rather an incident in the life of a school-boy than an ordinary story of adventure. A boy runs away from school—for, it must bo allowed, better reasons than those usually......
The War Of The Axe, By J. Peray.groves (blackie And
Son), is a sufficiently lively but rather loosely constructed story of adventures in South Africa at the time of the Kaffir War. There is a delightful number of improbabilities,......
Equal To The Occasion. By Edward Garrett. (oliphant,...
Ferrier, Edinburgh.) —This is an excellent example of Mr. Garrett's style and ethiccereligions purpose. ()Missy Miller, the daughter of a good man who has been led by an......
Hawbrook Farm, By Laura M. Lane (s ), Resembles, In
many respects, "Equal to the Occasion," although it contains a greater number and variety of characters. Miler Gaunt is just such another as Chrissy Miller, and after a period......
Only One Serious Objection Can Be Laid At The Door
of Adam Gorlake's Will, by " C. E. /11." (S.P.C.K.),—it is unconscionably long. Arthur Gorlake, who, under Adam's will, becomes heir to that eccentric gentleman's property, is......
Transito 1. A Story Of Brazil. By Mrs. Emma E.
Hornibrook. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—Spanish eyes, Brazilian landscapes, and a romantic courtship give an almost worldly piquancy to this book. But it is a religious story all......
In His Adopted Daughter, By Agnes Giberne (john F. Shaw
and Co.), we have a favourable example of this author's well-known style. She contrasts very skilfully George Rutherford, the strong, calmly Christian man, and his weak,......
John Canada, By Raoul De Navery (h. H. Gill And
Son, Dublin) is very unlike ordinary romances for English boys ; it belongs, indeed, to that class solely in virtue of its resemblance to books of adventure in America of the......
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......
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