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By Sea And Land. By Gordon Stables, M.d. (warne And

Co.). —There is plenty of " rollicking " fun in this book, at least from the point whore Lord Kildoon comes on board the Wiroworm.' His lordship is a Lieutenant in the Royal......

The Prisoner Of Chilouane ; Or, With The Portuguese In

South - East Africa. By Wallis Mackay. (Trischler and Co.)—This is not fiction, but sober truth. The author went out to Learenso Marques, the town of Dolagoa Bay, and mot there......

Prom Middie To Admiral Of The Fleet. By Dr. Macaulay.

(Hutchin- son and Co.)—This is a true tale, nothing less than "the story of Commodore Anson retold to boys." Not having the "Voyage Round the World" before us, we do not find it......

Wanted, A King ? By Maggie Browne. (cassell And Co.)—this

is the fifth thousand of a quaint story of the "Alice in Wonder- land " kind, to which Mr. Harry Furniss has given the attraction of various designs.—Fairy Tales and True, by......

In The Enemy's Country. By Anna H. Drury. (griffith, Ferran,

and Co.)—Wo need not say much more in praise of this volume. than that it takes for its subject much the same theme as that treated by MM. Erokmann and Chatrian in their......

'animal Painting For Beginner S. Drawn From Nature By...

'T. Dadd and Stanley E. B. Montefiore. (Cassell and Co,)—Here we have twelve studies in colour by the two artists named, and .a number of pencil sketches by Messrs. Harrison......

Her One Ambition, By Rowland Grey. (raphael Tuck And...

author of "Lindenblumon " has given us a really excellent little story. Barbara Meyrick's one ambition is the success of her brother. She surpasses him in ability ; but her only......

In The Days Of Luther. By Mime Stuart. (swan Sonnenschein

and Co.)—Luther is the protagonist of the story. The "Good Elector" also figures in it, for the time chosen for the tale is that when the Reformer was kept in safe custody in......

The Cruise Of The Alerte By E. P. Knight. (longmans.) —

Though we include this among the "gift.books " of the seasons our readers must not suppose that it is one of the naval fictions' which the young of the present generation take......

The Church Catechism. With Notes By "e. M." Illustrated....

very pretty and convenient little edition, with good pictures, though we should have preferred that those, as of' "Baptism" and "The Lord's Supper," which are connected with the......