Parables From Flowers. By Gertrude Dyer. (w. P. Nimmo And
Co., Edinburgh.)—Here are nine little stories, in which reality and fancy are not unskilfully mingled. Now flowers, now birds and beasts, confabulate, andnow we have little bits......
Fortune's Mirror Set In Gems. By M. Halford. (frederick...
and Co.)—This book contains verses for every day in the year. These it is impossible to praise. They seem to us to have not much sense, and next to no metre. Then there are......
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GIFT-BOOKS. The Polar Crusoes. Edited by Percy St. John. (Dean and Son.) —Two boys are cast away on an island in the Arctic seas, and then provide for themselves, with very......
Archie's Find. By E. Stredder. (t. Nelson And Sons.)—this...
of Australian life" has plenty of picturesque description and incident. The " find " is naturally a "claim" rich in gold, and gold, all the world over, creates history. The......
The Roman And Reformed Churches Of Scotland.*
FOR a Presbyterian clergyman, the author of this volume is remarkably bold in a peculiar way. No doubt there is what is termed a Broad Church party in the Church of Scotland to......
Job Carson's Portrait Gallery. By Lucretia Maybury. (w....
Hay, and Co., Edinburgh.)—This is a story of the mildly sensational kind, in which a waif is found to be the lost child of a titled lady. There are benevolent people, serious......
A Silver Teapot. By "c. E. M." (s P.c.k.)—this Is
an interesting and instructive little story of a village lad who by courage and honesty makes his way up in the world, doing good as he rises to others as well as to himself, a......
Christie's Next Things. By The Author Of " Mrs. Morse's
Girls." (Religious Tract Society.)—We may explain that "Do the next thing," is the motto which Christie Gilbert chooses for her rule of conduct, and which she applies to life......
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