Messrs. Gardner, Darton, And Co. Publish Two Volumes Of...
pictures and words, Nonsense for Somebody, Anybody, Every- body, particularly the Baby Body, by " A Nobody," and Some More Nonsense as Before. The first appeared last year, and......
The Hermit Princes. By Eleanor Stredder. (nelson And...
is "A Tale of Adventure in Japan." Perhaps we might say that the tale has too little adventure and too much Japan in it. Miss Stredder is evidently well acquainted with Japan.......
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......
Little Folks. (cassell And Co.)—this Magazine For...
as well as the older are considered—keeps up to its standard, and even improves. Both the serious and the comic divisions are good. The serious is not heavy ; the comic is not......
Messrs. Gardner, Darton And Co. Send Us The Annual Volume
of Sunday Reading for the Young. The volume is provided with alter- native bindings, which may be briefly described as specimens, re- spectively, of "high" and "popular" art.......
We Have Received A New Edition Of The Three Midshipmen,
by W. H. G. Kingston (Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.) This is one of the best of Mr. Kingston's stories, all of them in the front rank of this kind of literature. The "new......
The Art Bible. (george Newnes.)—this Is A Copiously...
edition of the Old and New Testaments according to the authorised version. The illustrations, which must number at least six hundred, are, on the whole, good, we may say really......
With Cochrane The Dauntless. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And
Son.)—Mr. Henty has had to use more than common ingenuity to work his materials into the form required. Lord Cochrane makes an admirable hero. He was a man of many adventures,......
The Story Of Aaron. By Joel Chandler Harris. (osgood,...
and Co.)—Aaron, to quote what is said about him in the conclusion of this book, "was and remains a mystery." He was a slave, but not of negro or Indian blood. But whatever he......
The Rosebud Annual (james Clarke And Co.), With Its Large
print and easily understood reading, adapts itself well to the wants and tastes of younger children. The illustrations seem to us particularly good. The humorous pictures are......
Crown And Anchor. By J. C. Hutcheson. (f. V. White.)—
Master Jack Vernon goes to sea at some time in the Fifties, getting his nomination through Sir Charles Napier, whose some- what eccentric personality helps to enliven the......
Tales From Hans Andersen. (a. Constable And Co.)—this...
five of the best-known, and perhaps we may say the best, of Hans Andersen's stories. These are "The Wild Swans," "The Ugly Duckling," " The Little Mermaid,"" The Storks," and "......
The Log Of A Privateersman. By Harry Collingwood....
Son.)—Mr. Collingwood's work naturally suggests a com- parison with that of Mr. Clark Russell, nor need such a com- parison be "odious." Each novelist has great merits. Mr.......
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