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New Fairy-tales From Brentano. Told In English By Kate...

Kroeker. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The success of the publication in English of a first series of fairy-tales from Brentano, has naturally led to the issue of a second series. The new......

Stories From Old English History. By The Rev. A. D.

Crake. (Mowbray, Oxford and London.)—Mr. Crake tells twelve stories of England before the Conquest, beginning with the fall of Anderids, at the close of the fifth century, and......

Round Nature's Dial. By Helen M. Burnside. (routledge And...

Burnside gives us sketches in prose and verse of various scenes connected with the four seasons of the year, and Mr. A. W. Cooper has illustrated them with various coloured......

In His Wonderful Stories Of Daring, Enterprise, And...

and Stoughton), Dr. Macaulay repeats an experiment which be has already made several times with distinguished success. He tells a number of true tales. There are between thirty......

Sir Walter's Ward : A Tale Rf The Crusades. By

William Everard. (Blackie and Son.)—" Sir Walter" is the famous Minne- singer, Herr Walther von der Vogel weide, and makes, in Mr. Everard's band, a picturesque and interesting......

The Brownies Their Book. By Palmer Cox. (t. Fisher Unwin.)

—Here we are told in verse which we cannot but think might have been conveniently exchanged for prose, how the Brownies imitate the occupations of human life. They ride on......

Sturdy And Strong. By G. A. Henty. (bleak, And Son.)—the

good boy who works and who never goes wrong here meets no again. This time he has a mother who is unable to work and goes to the infirmary, while the boy comes up to London to......

The Lads Of Lunda. By Jessie M. E. Flashy. (james

Nisbet and Co.) —A thoroughly interesting book, full of adventure and true daring. The touches describing the scenery and life in the Shetland Isles are fall of vigour. The "......

We Have To Acknowledge The Annual Issue Of The Two

companion volnmee,—Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D.; and the Sunday Magazine, edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Iabialer and Co.) — One of the serial stories which......

The Children Of Madagascar. By Herbert F. Standing....

Society.)—This is an interesting book for more than one reason. Mr. Standing is actually the Head-Master of the Boys' High-School belonging to the Friends' Mission at......

Schoolboy Stories. By Asoott R. Hope. (w. P. Hiram°, Hay,

and Mitchell.)—A collection of school-tales, all of which are well told and furnished with an excellent moral. The first is perhaps the beat; it seem, indeed, to be familiar to......

The Stories Of Wasa And Menzikoff. (blackie And Son.)—we Are

not told where these stories come from, nor is there any hint of their authorship. But there is something in them that suggests a foreign origin. Gustavus Wasa, "the deliverer......

Tames Chalmers, Missionary And Explorer. By William...

Partridge and Co.)—The main facts in the later life of the energetic Scotch missionary who, fighting his battles with no deadlier weapon than Gordon's cane, has lately morally......

The Kitten Pilgrims. By R. M. Ballaatyne. (james Nisbet And

Co.), —In this little story, a mother-cat sends forth her kittens, ' Flimsy and ' Dick,' into the world, in the company of her friend, the dog Trusty f and fall particulars are......