The Curse Of Clement Waynjtele. By Bertram Mitford....
and Bowden.)—In spite of "the whirlwind shriek as of a fiend voice, May they die in blood, as I have died " which is to be heard ever and anon over the three hundred odd pages......
' Spot ': An Autobiography. (houlston And Sons.)—there Is A
certain humour in the description of the way in which Spot' is induced to relate his experiences. The experiences themselves are moderately good, though the writer, or we should......
My Strange Rescue, And Other Stories Of Sport And Adventure
in Canada. By J. M. Oxley. (Nelson and Sons.)—These thirty-five stories of life and adventure in various parts of Canada are brisk and entertaining. Boys will find them......
On The Old Frontier. By William 0. Stoddard. (hodder And
Stoughton.)—The second title of this story, "The Last Raid of the Iroquois," very fairly explains its character. The author speaks with far more authority than do most writers......
The Reef Of Gold. By Maurice H. Hervey. (arnold.)—this Is
just the tale to fascinate a boy, with its fabulous gold reef, its chart and cipher, and the fitting out of a special expedition to explore the reef in the Southern Archipelago.......
The Great Cattle Trait. By Edward S. Ellis. (cassell And
Co.) —In this spirited story, Mr. Ellis introduces us into a world which reminds us forcibly of Fenimore Cooper's. Yet it is quite modern. The majority of the scenes are laid on......
Uncle Tom's Cabin Abridged For Young Readers. (john...
must candidly own that we have not felt disposed to spend two or three hours on examining the original story along with this abridgment. Our impression is that any one fit to......
Their Father's Wrong. By M. Bramston. (national Society.)...
is evidently determined to make her stories " up-to-date." Dermot and Eileen Connor are the children of an Irish patriot, who becomes entangled in machinations of which he does......
The Rosebud Annual, 1895. (clarke And Co.)—the "two...
fifty illustrations " with which this volume is adorned, and the letterpress, both prose and verse, are chiefly of the humorous kind. As is not uncommonly the case, the pictures......
The Little Bag Of Gold. By F. Bayford Harrison. (sunday
School Union.)—There is plenty of moral, if but little incident, in this story of a somewhat dull and slow boy's career. The bag of gold is found by the hero, and we trace its......
Miss Coventry's Maid. By M. And C. Lee. (national Society.)
—The Misses Lee have hit upon an idea for their story which, as far as we know, is now,—at least new in this application. Miss Alicia Coventry goes on a visit to a......
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