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A Book Of Sauces. By Mrs. Beaty-pownall. (chapman And...

author of this little book might fitly paraphrase a famous saying of Dryden, and exclaim, "I trade both with the Ohs World and the New for the enrichment of my sauces ! " for......

The Royal Christopher. By Justin Huntly Mccarthy. (chatto...

is a story of adventure on the sea, of mutiny, fierce fighting, and ultimate triumph of the right. It is a good story, with a well-conceived and well-developed plot, but so far......

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In the Garden of Peace. By Helen Willman (Mrs. Caldwell Crofton). Illustrated by Edmund H. New. (John Lane.)—We are glad to discover in Mrs. Caldwell Crofton's pretty little......

The Saga Of The Sea Swallow. Told By Maidie Dickson.

(A. D. Tunes and Co.)—Seven Vikings, of whom IN'nlfric the Bold was the leader, come to an enchanted isle on the west coast of Britain, where they find the White Witch and the......

The Zankiwank And The Bletherwitch. By S. J. Adair -...

Pictures by Arthur Rackham. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—We think that the pictures are good in this book ; we think also, but with the hesitation which a difficult matter demands, that......

Half - Holidays At The Zoo. By Charles Morley And Hulda...

(G. Routledge and Sons.)—These sketches of the various inmates of, the Zoo, from the "king of beasts," if we may still give this title to the lion, down to the lizards and eels,......

Squib And His Friends. By E. Everett-green. (nelson And...

Squib" is a little boy who has earned this nickname by a way he has of exploding, so to speak, in a rapid gush of impul- sive talk after long periods of silence and inaction.......

The Piebald Horse, And Other Stories. By Arthur Burrell. (t.

Fisher 17nwin.)—There are ten stories in this volume. We like best of all "My Grandmother's Holiday." The humour of this is very skilfully managed indeed. There is just a......

Violet Vereker's Vanity. By A. E. Armstrong. (blackie And...

form of snobbishness which forbids social inter- course with people in trade furnishes material for the history of Violet Vereker's vanity. It is Violet and her girl-friend who......

The Riders. By A. Russ= And Frederick Boyle. (frederick...

and Co.)—This is, in a way, a continuation of "The Orchid-Seekers in Borneo." Ludwig Hertz is one of the prin- cipal characters, and he goes to look for the Cattleya, a......

The Great White Queen. By Victor Le Queux. (f. V.

White . and Co.)—Who would have thought, as he strolled through the streets of Eastbourne some ten years or so ago, that that town contained so very strange and romantic a......

Black Gull Rock. By Morice Gerard. (nelson And...

a story of the evil days when some of the dwellers on the Cornish coast were wreckers. Annie Tresidder is taken, sorely against her will, to the house of her uncle Trehane, and......

Those Children. By Curtis Yorke. (f. V. White And Co.)—we

must own that we soon weary of the doings of the preternaturally troublesome children who supply some writers with a subject which they can develop into all kinds of......

Every Girls' Book Of Sport, Occupation, And Pastime....

Mrs. Mary Whitley. (G. Routledge and Sons.)—The contents of this book are (1) essays on various subjects in which all girls may be supposed to be more or less interested ; (2)......