Atalanta. Edited By L. T. Meade And John C. Staples.
(Hatchards.)—This "Magazine for Girls" keeps up the high character which it has already established. Both letterpress and. illustrations are excellent. Of the more serious kind......
The Castle And The Manor. By M. A. De Winter.
(Burns and Oates.)—There is little to be said about this book, except that it is especially written for children, and seems likely to please them. They will delight, perhaps......
Our Stories. By Ascott R. Hope. (biggs And Debenham.)—mr....
Hope tells his stories, 'which have a mere than common look of truth and Nature, as well as usual. "Our First Pipe" is the first, and is a most amusing account of how two lads......
The Old Pincushion, By Mrs. Molesworth (macmillan And...
The Neighbours (same author and publisher), are both repub- lications from magazines. The two stories were intended for different classes of readers, and Mrs. Molesworth has......
Laurel Crowns. By Emma Marshall. (j. Nisbet And Co.)—mrs....
should really be a little more sparing of her readers' feelings. We do not know how many of her characters go through sufferings that will draw sympathetic tears from tender......
Ballads Of The Brave. Selected And Arranged By Frederick...
M.A. (Methuen and Co.)—This "Collection of Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy, from the earliest times to the present day," shows a very happy conception......
Barbara Leybourns. By Sarah Selina Hamer. (oliphant,...
pessimist might object that thorough- paced old misers such as Simon Steele is represented to have bean s do not change their nature for even the most charming and dutiful of......
The Better Part, By Annie Swan (partridge And Co.), Is
a good story, though we cannot always agree with the author's theory of Christian life and practice. We are glad to see that it has reached a third edition.......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. familiar subject, which, however, can hardly be exhausted, so full is it of the elements of all that makes a story interesting. The personages whom Miss Raymond......
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