Tile True Annals Of Fairy Land. Edited By Walter Jerrold.
V. M. D ent and Co. 413.6d net.)—This, we are given to understand in the Preface, is to be taken as the third part of "Fairy land Cil lulifles." We have been present at the......
Foundations. By Mrs. Walter Ward. (national Society....
the beginning ; she is married at the end; in the interval she appears pretty frequently. Many other people appear also, some of them being, so to speak, irrelevant. There is......
Girls Of The Forest. By L. T. Meade. (w. And
R. Chambers. 6s.)—Mrs. Meade takes a large family of girls who have been allowed to run riot, and introduces into the dilapidated, poverty- stricken household a . conscientious......
Zing Mombo. By Paul Du Chaffin. (john Murray. 7s. 6d.
net.)— tin Chaillu tells in this volume, and promises to tell in another, various things which he saw in the course of his African travels, and tells them in a way that is......
Stanhope. By E. L. Haverfield. (t. Nelson And Sons. 3s.
6d.) —This "Romance of the Days of Cromwell" is written with con- siderable vigour, is well constructed and interesting, giving to the scenes and characters described a reality......
The Children Of Brookfield Hall. By Lydia Phillips....
—There is, we 'suppose, no copyright in situations ; otherwise that of the children who come back to England from India, and turn inside out a peaceful house, preferably that of......
The Lost Squire Of Inglewood. By Thomas Jackson. (t. Nelson
and Sons. 2s.)—Mr. Jackson should lay the scene of such adventures as he tells in here in lands, or at least in times, more remote. He is quite "up-to-date." Does he not......
Froissart In Britain. By Henry Newbolt. (nisbet And Co. 2s.
6d. net.)—Mr. Newbolt expresses a feeling familiar to most of us when he says that as a boy in turning over Froissart's pages " he stayed longer when he came upon England and......
Under Calvin's Spell. By D. Alcock. (r.t.s. 35. 6d.)—it Is
quite evident that Miss Alcock has studied the Geneva which Calvin ruled with no little care. She knows that it was no happy family. There were Genevans who objected to the......
My Lady Joanna. By Evelyn Everett-green. (nisbet And Co....
—This is "a chronicle concerning the King's children," the King being Edward I. (Did he really take the title of Edward the First ? Did William and Henry so call themselves ?)......
All For Number One. By Henry Johnson. (r.t.s. 2s. Ed.)—
" Charlie Russell's Ups and Downs" are told with simplicity. There is no attempt at fine writing, and the moralising is not obtrusive. The nouveau riche is a conventional figure......
A True Knight. By Lady Dunboyne. (national Society. Is....
marry a woman out on bail for a theft of money, and therefore with a strong suspicion of her guilt to be taken into account, demands a great sacrifice of self, and Reginald......
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