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Chums : An Illustrated Paper For Boys. (cassell And Co.

8s.)— This fifteenth volume shows no sign of abated vigour. There is an amazing amount of stories of adventure,—the pictures alone are enough to make one's blood run cold. There......

Castles And Chateaux Of Old Touraine.

Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country. By Francis Miltoun. With many Illustrations by Blanche McManus. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a......

We Have Received New Editions Of Old Favourites, The King

of the Golden River, and other Stories, by John Ruskin and others (T. Nelson and Sons, is.), the other stories being Nathaniel Haw- thorne's "Golden Touch "; "Ten Pieces of......

In The "peeps At Many Lands Series" (a. And C.

Black, Is. 61. net per vol.) we have two volumes, Scotland, by Elizabeth Grier- son, and India, by John Finnemore. Both are well furnished with excellent illustrations, a......

When Hawkins Sailed The Sea. By Tinsley Pratt. (e. Grant

Richards. 3s. 6d.)—The hero is, as usual, a little slow in getting to work. His ship does not weigh anchor till we reach p. 72, and the story of the voyage—Drake's first......

The Fairy Land Of Nature. By Wood Smith. (s. W.

Partridge. 1s.)—Here we have a description of certain natural marvels, some of them seen every day and often passed over, the silkworm, for instance, the "bottled sunshine" of......

The Little Folk's Favourite Album. By S. H. Hamer. (cassell

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Here we certainly get very good money's- worth. There are forty-eight coloured illustrations, mostly of excellent quality, the natural history pictures being......

The Child's Own Magazine (s.s.u., Is.) Can Claim The More

than respectable antiquity of seventy-four years. It moves on, too ; in its youth we should hardly have had such a lesson as that about Jacob and Esau. A. tale, "Two Little......

Current Lite Rat Ur E.

POLITICAL ECONOMY IN A NUTSHELL. Political Economy in a Nutshell. By F. U. Laycock,- LL.B. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Notwithstanding certain air of arrogance in......

Told To The Little Tot, By Edmund Vance Cook (dean

and Son, 3s. 6d. net), contains ten funny little stories,—" How Miss Tabitha Cat Taught School," and others. They are well illus- trated by Miss Bessie Collins Page.—How to Find......

The Swiss Family Robinson. Edited By G. E. Mitten. With

Illustrations by Harry Rountree. (A. and C. Black. 6s.)—The Swiss Family Robinson is the best of the many imitations of "Robinson Crusoe." We may laugh at the marvellous......

Playtime Palace (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co., Is.),...

simply told stories, large type, and attractive pictures, with now and than an obvious moral, is excellently suited to the quite young readers for whom it is intended.—With this......