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The Leisure Hour (r.t.s., 7s. 6d.) Contains As Much Good

read- ing as one is likely to find in a single volume. The mere quantity— eleven hundred pages—is in excess of most competing magazines. The quality admits less easily of......

The April Baby's Book Of Tunes. By The Author Of

" Elizabeth and her German Garden." (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—The rhymes are our old friends "Mary, Mary, quite contrary," and the like ; as to the tunes, we do not know whether......

The Wind Fairies, And Other Tales. By Mary De Morgan.

(Seeley and Co. 5s.)—There is a businesslike air in the telling of these stories which is decidedly attractive. There is no fine writing, no ornaments of speech ; the tales are......

Seven Maids. By L. T. Meade. (w. And R. Chambers.

6s.)— For a change we are not sorry to have a tale with no love-making in it. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard, having lost money, determine to take girls to educate with their own......

Through A Needle's Eye. By Hesba Stretton. (r.t.s. 3s....

Miss Stretton tells her story with a full share of her accustomed force. The hero's stepfather on his deathbed bids him destroy the will which would disinherit his half-brother;......