The Pond, By Carl Ewald (thornton Butterworth, 6s. Net),...
at first sight to be inaccurate, for it seems to confuse the nest, eggs and song of a reed warbler with a bird whose white-barred head shows it to be a sedge warbler. Also, all......
The Captain Of The Fifth. By Elsie Oxenham. (chambers. 5s.
net.) THE CAPTAIN OF THE FIFTH. By Elsie Oxenham. (Chambers. 5s. net.) A splendid tale for schoolgirls. It is competently written ; the chain of incidents is fresh and exciting......
Prince Jan, By Forrestine C. Hooker (mills And Boon, 6s.
net), and The King of the Snakes, by Rosetta Baskerville (S.P.C.K., 2s. net), are interesting little books, though too much mixed up with humanity to be, properly speaking,......
Nature's Curiosity Shop, By Richard Kerr (boys' Own...
net), deals with the freakishness and not the homeliness of Nature. It is a valuable addition to Nature lore, and its descriptions and pictures of butterfly eggs, strange......
Birds, Beasts And Trees.
LONG gone are the days when uncles at the Christmas book- shop announced that they "only "wanted a book for children. Those were the people whose own youth was nourished on......
It Seems A Pity That Angela Was Not Kept At
home. She is the sort of silly, tiresome, slangy little thing the recital of whose wearisome pranks could hardly serve for a pastime on the dreariest rainy day.......
Miss Fisher Tells Her Sea-stories And Country-stories A...
conscientiously, but they do not suffer overmuch from this soberness of tone. Her book would make a good present ; it is clearly printed, well bound, and adequately illustrated......
The New Girl Of Peny-y-gaintt. By Dorothea Moore....
net.) "A new girl" is determined to get into a lower class than the one in which she is " placed " on coming to school. The efforts of a good and clever child to seem stupid and......
Romances Of The Wild, By H. Mortimer Batten (blackie And
Son, 10s. 6d. net), Wild Kindred, by Jean M. Thompson (Jonathan Cape, Os. net), and More Nature Stories, by Waddingham Seers (Harrap, 4s. 6d. net), are all well-told stories of......
Guide Gilly. By Dorothea Moore. (nisbet. Os. Net.) The...
is laid at a school in Dornia—which is a sort of Ruritania somewhere in Central Europe. The adventures of the heroine are quite impossible but make pleasant reading. They bring......
The Happy Adventurers. By Lady Middleton. (blackie. Os....
Lady Middleton has written a graceful story of a young girl who imagines herself back in the days when her mother was a - child. She has many adventures in South Australia with......
Fleur And Blanchefleur. (o'connor. 7s. 6d. Net.) This...
touching tale" of true love rewarded is translated out of the medieval French by Mrs. Leighton. The coloured illustrations by Miss Brickdale are reminiscent of Lovat Fraser's......
Books For Girls.
THE KAYLES OF BUSHEY LODGE. By Vera Dwyer. (Milford. 6s. net.) "Bushey Lodge" is situated in a suburb of Melbourne. "It stood far back in a grassy space of ground well shaded by......
As A Rule Boys' School Stories And Girls' School Stories
are not much alike. These dormitory adventures, however, whose interest consists in children letting themselves down out of a bedroom window—" by means of a rain pipe, a strong......
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