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Mad John Burleigh. By Mrs. Charles Garnett. (s. W. Part-

ridge and Co.)—John Burleigh, possessed by a vocation to the work of a clergyman, refuses the succession to an inheri- tance which his uncle offers him. This is his first "mad-......

Royal Portrait Gallery. (nelson And Sons.)—here We Have A...

of pictures of English Sovereigns from William the Con- queror down to Victoria, together with some sketches of earlier times. Each portrait is accompanied by letterpress,......

One - And - Twenty Pages. By " Twym." (david Bryce And...

—This is a volume of sketches humorous and pathetic, sketches of life/high and low, of a wedding-breakfast, for instance, a football-match, " The People's Dinner-Hour," " The......

We Have Received A "new Edition, Revised And Enlarged," Of

Mr. W. H. G. Kingston's Yacht Voyage Round England (Religious Tract Socilty). The illustrations are numerous and good. " Round England " must be understood to include the island......

Up North In A Whaler. By Edward A. Rand. (hutchinson

and Co.)—This is a story of adventure in the Arctic Seas. We are told something in it of what has been endured and achieved by explorers in those regions, and we also have......

The Nine Worlds. By Mary E. Litchfield. (ginn And Co.)—

The writer has retold the beautiful stories of the old Norse mythology in well-chosen and expressive language, and has, we think, hit the happy mean between simplicity and a......

Through Magic Glasses. By Arabella B. Buckley. (e....

Buckley contrives, after her own skilful manner, to give a certain charm and liveliness to her scientific lessons. Her first subject is the moon. Descriptions, explained by......

The Percivals. By Evelyn Everett-green. (religious Tract...

this is a more ambitious work than has hitherto been attempted by the author of a number of stories distinguished more by simplicity than by any other quality. Mrs. Green not......

Ada Hatherley At School. By Constance Evelyn. (religious...

Hatherley is an impulsive, somewhat head- strong girl of fifteen, whom her parents, having to make a journey to America, determine to leave for a year at a boarding-school. How......

True Stories From French History. Compiled By N. M. Paul.

(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—From Vercingetorix, the ablest cham- pion of Gallic liberties against Caesar, down to the Franco- Prussian War, with its recollections of Bazaine,......

An Ocean Knight. Translated From The French Of Fortune Du

Boisgobey. (Frederick Warne and Co.)—Hilarion, Chevalier de Tourville, is a name known to Englishmen chiefly as the com- mander of the French fleet at the Battle of La Hogue.......

Fritz Of Prussia. By Lucy Taylor. (t. Nelson And Sons.)—

Miss Taylor tells the story of " Frederick, second Emperor of Germany," from the days of his boyhood down to his death. Of course we hear much, as we read of the immediate......

Roland Salbris. By Hector Malot. (hutchinson And Co.)— M....

produces excellent books for young people. He has all the vivacity and delicate humour that are characteristic of the best French writers. The hero of this story is a most in-......

The Dominant Seventh. By Kate Elizabeth Clark....

Seventh is a somewhat romantic story with, as its title denotes, a musical setting. The characters are musicians, and without their music they would not possess much interest......