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Uncle Steve's Locker. By "brenda." (j. F. Shaw And Co.)—

"Brenda," as usual, lays the opening of her story in the East- End, and we recognise instantly the same power of sympathy and exquisite photographic accuracy of detail which......

11:1rough The Shadows.*

THIS remarkable book is in the form of a story, but it would be unfair to review it by any usual standard of story-writing. The characters, their talk, their actions, are all......

M.p.'s In Session. By Harry Furniss. (bradbury, Agnew,...

pictures from "Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery" hardly need to be praised. Every one knows them as they appear, week by week, in what most people, we fancy, think the......

The Industrial Self - Instructor. (ward, Lock, And...

compilation contains instructions in the leading branches of technical science and industrial arts and processes, and comprises building and mechanical design and con-......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. We have to notice the first annual volume of the Children's Illustrated Magazine. (Seeley and Co.)—The illustrations are of the high quality for which the name of......

To The End. By C. Lockhart Gordon. (j. F. Shaw

and Co.)— A perusal of this story will, we hope, teach young women the wisdom of being satisfied with their own homes. It is rather a weak production, but will doubtless find......

End Mien. By John Keats. Illustrated By W. St. John

Harper. (Sampson Low and Co.)—It is a perilous adventure to illustrate Endyntion. All the excellences, even all the defects, of the poem, test with the utmost severity the......