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A Captive Of The Corsairs, By John Finneraore (t. Nelson

and Sons, Os.), takes us back to the sixteenth century. The story begins with a spirited fight between the Half Moon' and some Barbary rovers. The slave market, the experiences......

The Countess Rinklespyn, And Other Stories. By Helen...

(Cornish Brothers, Birmingham. Os.- net.)—Most of Miss Dixon's stories are fairy-stories, or, to put the case more generally, have an element of the preternatural in them.......

The World Of Romance. (cassell And Co. 5s.)—this Volume...

a selection of more or less familiar stories of the romantic order. We notice among them "The Lady of the Guillotine," by Washington Irving ; "The Tapestried Chamber," by Sir......

A Sea Queen's Sailing. By Charles W. Whistler. (t. Nelson

and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is a story of the tenth century, when the Norse seafarers were making havoc far and wide about the Northern seas. It opens with a very spirited scene......

Samba : A Story Of The Rubber Slaves Of The

Congo. By Herbert Strang. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—Mr. Strang, as we have already taken an opportunity of saying, is an excellent teller of stories. And Samba, which, as the......

The White Stone. By H. P. Macllwaine. (wells Gardner,...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This story is distinctly above the average of its class. The scene opens in New Zealand, and introduces the hero in his thirteenth year, a lad of the woods,......

The Lost Explorers. By Alexander Macdonald. (mackie And...

drama of this very spirited story is, it may be said, in two acts. The first act is gold-digging and gold-washing, with a scientific process, on which we must decline to......

An Irish Story.*

THis is an excellent specimen of that very agreeable hybrid, the gift-book-novel. It has in perfection all the characteristics of its kind. There is a heroine, and a heroine's......

Across The Spanish Main. By Harry Collingwood. (blackie...

5s.)—This is a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth, when the Spanish Main was the great field of adventure for English youth. Two lads take service under one of the great seamen......

Chatterbox. (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co. 3s. And...

and the publishers of Chatterbox take a legitimate pride in the long and successful career of their magazine. It first appeared about forty years ago under the editorship of the......