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Stella's Story. By Dailey Dale. (j. S. Virtue And Co.)—this

is a dainty little volume, well printed and well illustrated, and gives a very pretty, if also sweetly commonplace, story of Venice and England. Three people meet in the city of......

The Wardship Of Stcepcombe. By Charlotte M. Yonge....

Diggory Upton takes advantage of the minority of his nephew to exercise various oppressive rights or quasi-rights ; among other things he reclaims certain villeins who had......

Very Funny Stories Told In Rhyme. (s.s.u.) — Some Of...

in number—have been published before. Not a few are distinctly good, as, for instance, " Prissy's Curls." The tale of a marvellously good girl has been told, who " had golden......

The Revolt Of The Young Maccormacs. By Violet Geraldine...

(Ward and Downey.)—This is a very amusing and well- constructed story of a family of four children in Dublin, who get alarmed at hearing that their father, who is a learned......

School In Fairy-land. By E. H. Strain. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—

Mrs. Strain is a delightful—and to all appearance at least delight- fully simple—writer, but her new book is too mystically " fairyish " to be quite understood by the children......

The Silver Link. (s.s.u.)--this "illustrated Monthly...

and School" will be found both interesting and instructive. We observe that in the portion named " The Sunday Hour" we have a succession of "Sunday Lessons" given. These will be......

Be/tiara/ley. By G. Robert Wynne, D.d. (s.p.c.k.)—the...

has here given a story of the terrible days in Ireland a hundred years ago, which, if not quite so well com- pacted as it might have been, is yet full of incident, brogue, and......

Mr. Lehmann's Portraits.* We Were Not Able To Say Much

in praise of Mr. Rudolf Lehmann's Reminiscences. He seemed to us not to have much of the art of painting in words. But if his volume bad been scattered with the salt which is......

The King's Baby. By E. M. Rutherford. (gay And Bird

)— This is a very agreeable story of a Royal child of more than average intelligence, and with a gift of humour of the sort that appeals specially to children, because it is......