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Who Will Be Queen Of The Tournament ? And Other

Stories. By Robert St. John Corbet. (Cassell, Potter, and Galpin.)—Various kinds of childish revels, from dressings-up and swimming matches, to a real tournament in armour, ate......

The Odes Of Pindar Translated Into English Prose. By F.

A. Paley, M.A. (Williams and Norgate ; Deighton and Bell.)—Mr. Paley can doubtless construe Pindar as well as any scholar in England, so far as a mastery of the critical......

Life Of Sir Walter Ralegh. By James Augustus St. John.

(Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. St. John has given fifteen reasons for undertaking a now Life of Ralegh, a task to which he has devoted seven years. Some of these reasons, as, for......

The Little Gipsy. By Elie Sauvage. Illustrated By Lorenz...

Translated by Anna Blackwell. (Griffith and Farraa.)—A charming little tale, with some of the most effective illustrations we have ever seen from Lorenz Frolich's delicate,......

Stories From Germany: I. Goldseekers And Breadwinners, Or...

Place like Home," by Franz Hoffmann ; IL The Cobbler, the Clerk, and the Lawyer of Liebstein, by Gustav Nieritz, translated by Annie Har- wood. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Both......

Elephant Haunts. Being A Sportsman's Narrative Of The...

Livingstone, with Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting. By Henry Faulkner, late 17th Lancers. (Hurst and Blackett.) —This entertaining but somewhat wordy......

Every-day Painted Picture, Play, And Scrap-book, Painted...

(Dean and Son.)—A. jolly little picture book for small children, full of variety, the colours gay, showy, and not too coarse, and the animal pic- tures of a kind sure to......