Englishman's Haven. By W. J. Gordon. (f. Warne And Co.)—
Mr. Gordon's tale relates the last days of Louisbourg, the strong- hold of the French in Canada about a hundred and fifty years ago. The combined siege by the colonists takes......
Of New Editions Of Popular Books, We Have To Mention
:— Patience Wins ; or, War in the Works, by G. Manville Fenn (Blackie and Son) ; The Missing Merchantman, by Harry Coiling- wood (same publishers) ; and The Great Show in 'Cobol......
Quaintance Of An Eccentric And Miserly Old Cousin,...
name. He leaves her a ruby ring, which is as good as a For- tunatus's purse to her. She makes money at once by lending it on hire, and she finds in it the secret of how she is......
Penelope And The Others. By Amy Walton. (blackie And Son.)
—Penelope is the eldest of a family of five children; and Miss Walton relates their experiences in a very pleasing little narra- tive, brightened with not a few touches of......
An Old-time Yarn. By Edgar Pickering. (blackie And Son.)...
is the story of one Anthony Ingram's adventures on the Spanish Main in the year 1567, and throughout the narrative the flavour of the Elizabethan freebooters and their life......
Subjects, All With A Purpose, And All Well Illustrated. "
Short Arrows" is the heading given to those fascinating little para- graphs touching on innumerable subjects, and each of which enshrines. of course, a moral. " The Quiver Bible......
The Pilgrims' Way. By Julia Cartwright (mrs. Henry Ady). (j.
S. Virtue and Co.)—This is a really good book, well written, as, indeed, we should expect in anything coming from the author's pen, and well illustrated. The " Pilgrims' Way "......
Finn And His Companions. By Standish O'grady. (t. Fisher...
St. Patrick and his fellow-missionaries were build- ing a little church on the plain of Meath, they were aware of a company of giant-like men that was approaching them. These......
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Illustrated By J. Moyr Smith. (b.
Quaritch..)—Mr. Moyr Smith gives us an Introduction, in which he discusses the play especially regarded as a spectacle, and describes the way in which it has been brought upon......
A Very Odd Girl. By Annie E. Armstrong. (blackie And
Son.) —Vera, the daughter of a certain Mona. Despard, who is not a very steady character, and his English wife, comes to the home of her English relatives, and naturally is......
Serve As A Sample Of Them All. Little Josephine's...
forgets to give her his annual gift of a half-sovereign. So she cannot buy her sister Nancy the pair of satin slippers she had thought of. To make up, she ornaments an old pair......
The Way She Trod. By Harriet E. Colvile. (james Nisbet
and Co.)—This is the story of a great religious change, a subject which we feel to be scarcely the proper province for the pen of the tale-writer. Miss Colvile writes, it is......
A Cruise In Cloudland, And What Came Of It. By
Henry Frilt. (Blackie.)—The "Cruise in Cloudland" necessarily occupies but a small space. Balloon voyages cannot last long, and though they often end in striking catastrophes,......
Trixie's Visit To The Land Of Nod. By Clara Bradford.
(E. Howell.)—This is one of the numberless imitations of " Alice in Wonderland," or shall we say that it might be labelled, were it a picture, " School of Lewis Carroll " We do......
St. Dunstan's Clock. By E. Ward. (seeley And Co.)—this Is
a story of the Great Fire of London, which is made to supply a well- contrived denouement. The chief characters are Master Widdring- ton, a clockmaker, somewhat in advance of......
A Woman's Word. By Dora M. Jones. (oliphant, Anderson, And
Ferrier.)—Mary Deverell gives her word to a Guy Chevelay, a young man who has no intellectual solidity or moral strength. He takes up opinions more because they are extreme than......
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