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From Ploughshare To Pulpit. By Gordon Stables. (j. Nisbet...

Co.)—The career of the farmer's son, who works at night to prepare himself for a bursary at Aberdeen, is one that is sure to commend itself to the true Scotch boy. Dr. Stables......

Quiet Stories From An Old Woman's Garden, By Alison Mclean.

(F. Warne and Co.)—In this volume there are five short stories, all of them connected by some graceful and tender sentiment with one or other of the old-fashioned plants, which......

Mr Andrew Lang's Noble "border Edition Of The Waverley...

(Nimmo) has reached its final and forty-eighth volume, which contains the Chronicles of the Canongate. The last four volumes of the series, which include Count Robert of Paris......

Pictures Of The World. By Clement Scott. (remington And...

Scott is one of those delightful travellers who, before they write of their travels, clear their minds of cant. He speaks quite frankly, for instance, about the Japanese, and......

The Anarchist. By H. Savage. (routledge.)—this Story By...

of "My Official Wife," is a highly sensational story of the transpontine character, which has Anarchism as its back- ground. It describes the woes and adventures of Evelyn......

Greece In The Age Of Pericles. By Arthur J. Grant.

(John Murray.)—This is an excellent manual; the author has made a judicious use of the best authorities, and put together the results of adequate study in a convenient and......

Seven Little Australians, By Ethel S. Turner. (ward,...

Co.)—We are introdueed to one of those happy, mischievous families of children who drive their parents crazy, but who develop of course as they grow older into interesting......

The Portfolio, October. Edited By P. G. Hamerton. (seeley...

Co.)—The monograph this month is on "Bookbinding in France," and is from the pen of Mr. William G. Fletcher. Probably the public to which it is addressed is less extensive than......

The Wings Of Icarus. By Laurence Almaetaderna. "the...

(W. Heinemann.)—We fail to trace the applica- tion of the story of Icarus in Miss Alma-Tadema's book. Emilia Fletcher reminds us more of the moth that singes its wings in the......

The White Laid Of The Atlas. By J. Mclaren Cobban.

(W. -and R. Chambers.)—The hero of the story, a young, reckless, but really good fellow, is sent to Morocco to obtain a little discipline from travel, and meets with some......

Margridel. By David Storrar Meldrum. (blackwood And...

history of a Fifeshire family" has the look of being largely a transcript from life. It is a tragic tale—we can get nothing else, it would seem, nowadays but tragic tales—but it......