Mr. Mallock's "cyprus."*
THIS is a charming book, revealing in Mr. Mallock most unusual power for that kind of description which suggests much more than it actually describes. Mr. Mallock deals in no......
Highways And High Seas. By F. Frankfort Moore. (blackie And
Son.)—This is one of the best stories Mr. Moore has written, perhaps the very beat. The exciting adventures among highway- men and privateers are sure to attract boys. The tale......
The Sunday At Home. (religious Tract Sooiety.)—the Bio-...
are up to the usual standard in the Sunday at Home, and include some twenty-five names. There are three good. serial stories as well by Agnes Giberne, Crona Temple, and Leslie......
Afloat At Last. By J. C. Hutcheson. (blackie And Son.)—
This is not such a good story as "The Wreck of the Nancy Bell,' " but there is a strong and healthy flavour of the sea in it, as there is in most of Mr. Hutcheson's stories. The......
Russian Pictures. By Thomas Michell, B.a. (religious...
carries on a series of " Pictures " of various countries, to which we have several times given a well-deserved praise. The author approaches Russia by way of Berlin, after......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. Maid of the Golden Age. By H. E. McLean. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a very pleasant description of life on board a Man-o'-war. It is not exciting, but boys will......
The Leisure Hour. (religious Tract Society.)—the Tendency...
to include subjects of wider variety is very noticeable in the Leisure Hour. Fiction is represented by Mr. -Tighe Hopkins's thoroughly Irish tale of " Carriconna." Genera/......
Knight Asrael, And Other Stories. By U. Ashworth Taylor....
Sonnenschein and Co.)—We fancy that most of these stories are of a kind that will be appreciated by the elders rather than the younger folk. Certainly that which gives a title......
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