Face To Face With Napoleon. By 0. V. Caine. (j.
Nisbet and Co.)—This is a really excellent story, well furnished both with well-drawn characters and striking incident. Such, indeed, is the abundance of material that the......
The King's Reeve. By The Rev. E. Gilliat. (seeley And
Co.)— Mr. Gilliat makes good use of certain traditions about the "greatest of the Plantagenets." There is a ballad of "John the Reeve " in Bishop Percy's collection. The......
The Bonded Three. By Bessie Marchant. (blackie And Son.)...
boys and girls who delight in tales of adventure will indeed be hard to please if they do not enjoy this story, which relates the experiences of three English children during a......
Comical Coons. By Kemble. (regan Paul, Trench, And Co,)...
is an importation from the other side of the Atlantic. The draughtsman makes fun, of a somewhat extravagant kind, out of his subjects, which are, for the most part, humours of......
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......
A Dreadful Mistake. By Geraldine Mockler. (blackie And...
something farcical about this story. A gentle- man who telegraphs to a relative the question whether she will receive his children, and is satisfied with the answer that she......
The Boys Of Fairmead. By Mary C. Rowsell. (f. Warne
and Co.)—The "boys " are Jack Trustwood, the son of the ferryman, and Arthur Thistleton, son of the Squire. The " Little Squire," as he was commonly called, was rescued from......
Draw Swords ! By G. Manville Fenn. (w. And R.
Chambers.) —This, the story of an officer in the Horse Artillery during the rule of " John Company " in India, is as good as any of the tales which have earned for Mr. Manville......
The Girls Of St. Bede's. By Geraldine Mockler. (jarrold And
Sons.)—" Stories for girls" are, as a rule, the one kind of books which girls refuse to read ; but we think this will prove an excep- tion, for it is decidedly superior to most......
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