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A Trip To Mars. By Fenton Ash. (w. And R.

Cha.mbers. 3s. 6d.)—As may be imagined from the title, Mr. Fenton Ash's new book does not lack for marvellous adventure. The story opens in the Southern Seas with the fall of......

Reuben The Fisherman. By William Webster. (s.p.c.k. 2s.)—...

a foundling, but grows up to manhood unaware of the fact, and becoming tired of cobbling and the nagging of an aunt, goes to the fishing at Lowestoft. How he meets a man who is......

Cousin Becky's Champions. By Eleanora H. Stooke....

poor Mrs. Trent receives into her house " Cousin Becky," with whom the rich Mrs. Marsh, her sister-in-law, prudently declines to have anything to do. It is not difficult to......

The February Bays. By Mrs. Molesworth. (w. And Il Chambers.

35. 6d.)—The plot, if it can be called a plot, of this charmingly told story turns on the jealousy which little Rolf feels for the new arrival, who displaces him from tho post......

Becky Compton, Ex - Duz. By Raymond Jacberns. (w. And Il...

5s.)—This is a girls'-school story. Becky has to face the difficulty of an incompetent successor put into her place—the system looks a little odd, but we do not profess to be......

Clever And Musing, With That Aptness Of Phrase, Readiness...

decision of character we associate with our little Cousins across the water. The story °pent with some most entertaining fooling which keeps the reader and the respective......

The Islanders. By Theodora Wilson Wilson. (blackie And...

6d.)—The "Island" is not remote, Juan Fernandez or the like, but in Morecambe Bay, a bold departure for the writer of this kind of fiction. The story is, indeed, a curious......

The Attic Boarders. By Raymond Jacberns. (w. And R....

3s. 6d.)—The "boarders" are dogs which Rachel Wellington takes in to improve the family finances. Children who love animals will understand that this means almost continual......

Jack In The Rockies. By George B. Grinnell. (w. And

R. Chambers. 2s. 6d.)—Once more we enter the Rockies with Jack Danvers and his guide, philosopher, and friend, Hugh Johnson, the old frontiersman. The narrative begins at......

Place, With A Semi-final Game At "rugger" Between Two School

teams; then it goes off into various exciting affairs, a band of Italian conspirators and all their doings. The " Seiroccos," for so they are called, come to their proper end,......

The Rival Treasure - Hunters. By Robert Macdonald....

6d.)—Mr. Macdonald takes us to a field of adventure which has not been chosen by writers of fiction,—British Guiana and the debatable land, or what used to be such, between that......