A Fighter In Green. By Herbert Hayens. (t. Nelson And
Sons.) —This " Tale of Algeria " comes, we may say, opportunely. It is as well sometimes, and particularly now, to hear about the gallant deeds of other nations than our own.......
The Lady Isobel. By Eliza F. Pollard. (blackie And Son.)—
This is a story, true in its main facts, as the writer assures us, of the days of the Covenant in Scotland. The heroine, rightly so called, is a real person, and the tale of her......
Klondike Nuggets. By E. S. Ellis. (cassell And Co.)—jeff...
and his two young companions certainly fared better than the majority of gold-seekers who have made their way to that dreary region to make their fortunes. Jeff, a " forty-niner......
A Roman Household. By G. Norway. (national Society.)—...
a fairly good story of life at Rome during the days of Nero, with a special reference to the sufferings of the Christians at that time. There are, perhaps, too many figures on......
The Cry From The Sea And The Answer From The
Shore. By the Rev. T. Stanley Treanor. (R.T.S.)—We have no wish to depre- ciate the merit of imaginative pictures of heroism and self- sacrifice. Still, if any one desires to......
Under The Dome Of St. Paul's. By Emma Marshall. (seeley
and Co.)—Mrs. Marshall has made a distinct success with this " Story of Sir Christopher Wren's Days." Sir Christopher is a very interesting, and even noble, figure, and Mrs.......
The Girls Of St. Wode's. By Mrs. L. T. Meade.
(W. and F. Chambers.)—Mrs. Meade shows her readers, most of them, it is to be presumed, likely to be girls, one aspect of the new order of things, the career open to women. The......
Poetry For Children. By Charles And Mary Lamb. (j. M.
Dent and Co.)—These poems are, perhaps, better known by reputation than in fact. How many of our readers, we wonder, could tell the purport of " The Boy and the Skylark " ?......
A Mystery Of The Pacific. By Oliphant Smeaton. (blackie And
Son.)—Mr. Smeaton certainly gives his readers a novelty. The captain of a Queensland " Labour Schooner " finds in a seaman's chest—the man has been killed in a mutiny—a paper......
Herbert Clutterbuck. By Arthur Canon. (s. P. C. Ic.)...
Clutterbuck is left an orphan by his father's early death, and has to go out into the world from the pleasant home where, as it is well put, "there was never lack of anything,......
Clutterbuck's Treasure. By Fred Whishaw. (griffith,...
left a large amount of money --£100,000—to become the property of any one of the five heirs he named in his will. One of these, Godfrey Hewetson, who had saved him from being......
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