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Otto Of The Silver Hand. Written And Illustrated By Howard

Pyle. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a capital story. Otto is the son of a Robber Baron, who, turned from his evil ways by his sorrow at his wife's death, makes his submission to......

Coaching Days And Coaching Ways. By W. Outram Tristram. With

Illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. (Macmillan.)—This very handsome volume is a reprint of articles which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine. We may......

Bed - Letter Saints. (s.p.c.k.)—this Is A Handsomely...

a "series of biographies of those Saints for which proper Collects, Ep■stles, and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer." There are twenty in all,—viz., the Twelve......

A Thousand Miles Up The Nile. By Amelia B. Edwards.

Second edition, revised. (Routledge and Sons.)—After an interval of about ten years, Miss Edwards sends out a cheaper edition of this interesting book. To say that it is the......

Twelve Etchings Contributed To The " Portfolio" By Paul...

Bajon. With a Brief Memoir and Notes. By F. G. Stephens. (Seeley and Co.)—M. Rajon died, in the prime of his powers, last June, of an attack of pleurisy contracted at the burial......

French," Seem Suitable For The Purpose. There Are Two, Or

at most three, characters in them, so that the company would not be diffi- cult to manage; and the plays themselves are fairly amusing. The illustrations, by E. L. Shute, are......

Toots :' The Autobiography Of A Persian Cat. Compiled By

Alfred C. Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—We have the compiler's assurance for the truth of this story. Interesting it certainly is. ' Toots ' tells us about his ancestors, who came......

Judicious Mixture Of Fiction And Truth, Of Fun And Earnest.

Robert Hall, the hero of the first story, is a genuine boy. It is very boy- like, for instance, to say, after mentioning his hopes of being a station-master,—" I do not see what......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. Tunes for Tots. By Anne Finch Hatton. (Hatchards.)—Here we have the words of twenty-four nursery rhymes set to music. Among them are such old favourites as "Little......

Wings Without Feathers. By J. A. Lefroy. (walter Smith And

Innes.)—This is one of the most entertaining little books that has ever come in our way. Little Willie, the hero of the story, is a quite delightful child. Not that any rational......