Zigzag Fables. Pictured By J. A. Shepherd. (gardner,...
Co.)—This is a book of comic animals, in which some old favourites from the collections of fables are illustrated in a really funny way by Mr. Shepherd's imaginative pencil. One......
A Man Of Honour. By H. C. Irwin. (a. And
C. Black.)—This is a story of the second Sikh War. The hero is the last repre- sentative of an old Irish family, and goes out with a military cadetship in time to take part in......
Leighton Revives Once More The Don-hunting Days Of Queen...
and Sir Francis Drake, and, in fact, reproduces the great fight off Flores in which Sir Richard Grenville did his best with his ' Revenge' against the overwhelming odds of the......
The Wheel Of Fate. By Mrs. Bagot }lade. (w. H.
Addison.) —Two young ladies are left behind at a pension, with a clergyman and his wife as unwilling guardians. The situation becomes interesting when two young men arrive, who......
Vandrad The Viking. By J. Storer Clouston. (t. Nelson And
Sons.)—Mr. Clouston gives in this story an abundance of the fighting, and a fair amount even of the drinking, that are generally associated with Viking stories. But ho also......
With Crockett And Bowie. By Kirk Munroe. (blackie And...
is a stirring story of the struggle of Texas for in- dependence,—the struggle in which " pioneers " like Dave Crockett and James Bowie fell before the overwhelming force of the......
Dr. Burleigh's Boys. By Charles Edwardes. (griffith,...
is a story of a kind that the boys of the more high-spirited sort will greatly appreciate, though it is to be hoped that it will not have on them the effect that "Jack Sheppard"......
For Treasure Bound. By Harry Collingwood. (griffith,...
this book Mr. Collingwood gives us a new Japhet in search of a father, who is quite real, and turns out to be distinctly flesh-and-blood. Japhet is, in the first place, in......
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The Ayrshire Homes and Haunts of Burns. By Henry C. Shelley. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is one of tho pleasantest and least controversial of the recent contributions to the......
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