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Mr. Lefevre's "incidents Of Coercion."

E are more and more amazed at the impermeability of Mr. Shaw-Lefevre and his fellows to the obvious conclusions of honest and sober Englishmen even after they carefully read his......

Swiss Stories. Translated By Lucy Wheelock. (blackie And...

delightful children's tales are from the German of Madame Johanna Spyri. They are essentially for children, but would fascinate older and less enthusiastic minds with their......

Inspire Us With Any Interest. It Is Certainly To Be

hoped that no such persons as Alma Ryan and her grandmother really exist; if they do, their conversation is most unnatural and stilted, and would soon become unbearable. The......

Our Martha. By Edith Greeves. (wesleyan Methodist Sunday-...

good story with a good moral, and one that all girls should read. Martha is compelled, by a fatal accident to her father, to go into domestic service. She has, of course, many......

Edwin Loyd. By Minor J. Kelly. (wells Gardner, Dalton; And

Ca.)—There is a good deal that is interesting in this simple narrative. The family of a poor tradesman are left almost desti- tute by his failure. In the belief that it is......

The Fisherman's Daughter. By Florence Montgomery. (hat-...

of ambition, and the pride which goes before a fall. The heroine, a fisherman's daughter, develops a talent for dressmaking, and wishes to better herself. She goes to London as......

Pen. By The Author Of "tip-cat." (walter Smith And Lanes.)

—A pitiful story of two poor motherless little girls, who are left to the tender mercies of a dissolute father and a rough and kind- hearted friend, Sandy by name. Without him,......

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Christmas in Many Lands. By Florence and Edith Scannell. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—We seem to have a favourable recollection, surviving from last year, of excellent work done......

A Song O' Sixpence. By J. Jackson Wray. (j. Nisbet

and Co.)— This fairy-story relates the misfortunes which befell the people of Cheeriland from the machinations of a wizard. The incident of the song, the four-and-twenty......

The Ruby Necklet. By Beth Richardson. (wesleyan Methodist...

is the story of a little girl's temptation. And doubtless a ruby necklet would prove a great temptation to many. How Rose kept her treasure-trove, and her bitter repentance,......

The 'saucy May.' By Henry Frith. (mackie And Son.)— Lawrence

Ernstone, the hero of Mr. Frith's tale, is left alone in the world by the disappearance of his father, and then the tragic death of his mother. In the last he is nearly......

The Earls Of The Village. By Agnes Giberne. (j. F.

Shaw and Co.)—The " earls " of the village are tradespeople, and a very unhappy time they seem to have. Affairs finally improve, though not till one of the " earls " has killed......

Up To The Mark. By Harriett Boultwood. (j. F. Shaw

and Co.) —Harold Seymour gives us, in the form of a diary, a year's ex- perience of a schoolboy's life and temptations. With a little of the prig about him, he is yet a thorough......

Left To Our Father. By The Author Of " Clevedon

Chimes." (Gardner, Dart,on, and Co.)—A pleasant little story about the troubles which happened to • two little orphans. It is a fairly interesting story, and should interest all......