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Chums : An Illustrated Paper For Bogs. (cassell And...

is a comparatively new annual, dating from 1892, and considering its cheapness, well got up and well illustrated. There are some capital serial stories in it ; innumerable short......

The Quiver, 1893. (cassell And Co.)—this Magazine...

its characteristic merits. Its fiction is sound and whole- some ; the miscellaneous contents of great variety and unfailing interest. The "interviewer," of course, appears, but......

Mr. Hosken's "verses By The Way."* * Verses By The

Way. By J. D. Hoeken. with a Critical and Biographical Introduction by "Q." London : Methuen and Co. HOS3CEN, known as the "Postman Poet," is gradually making a name among the......

The Wabrus - Hunters. By B. M. Ballantyne. (nisbet And...

is a story of the Far North of Western America, the border- land of doubtful ownership between the Dogrib Indians and the Eskimo. (The tale is of a time now passed away.)......

Torn And His Crows. By J. M. E. Saxby. (nisbet

and Co.)— Mrs. Saxby is as charming and fresh as ever in Tom and his Crows. Tom is the typical good uncle, and the " Crows " are his nephews and nieces, who are all of a most......

Dick's Match. (s.p.c.k.)—" Dick " Is A Young Farmer, Very

respectable, but over-confident in himself. He gets into a serape in a poaching affair—he is on the keeper's side, and there is a question of carrying firearms—is convicted of......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. The Light of the World. By Sir Edwin Arnold. Illustrated after Designs by W. Holman Hunt. (Longmans.)—It is not necessary for us to say anything on this occasion......

Atalanta. Edited By L. T. Meade And A. B. Symington.—

Atalanta does not give its readers the mass of matter which some of its rivals furnish, but what it gives is of the best. Mr. Steven- son's new story is in itself a great......