Madge Hardwicke, By Agnes Giberne (j. F. Shaw And Co.),
is a story of a strongly religions tendency, exhibiting the way in which a. man, himself without belief, is brought to a recognition of the truths which he had been accustomed......
The Boys Who Lived On The Road From Long Ago
to Now. By Jane Andrews. (Mackie and Son.)—Miss Andrews begins with "Sabin, the Aryan boy who came down to the plains of the Indus," and so takes us through Persia, Greece,......
Some Of Our Fellows. By The Rev. T. S. Millington.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—In spite of some affectation—for we cannot believe that. schoolboys ever talk in the way in which Frederick Jackineon opens his narrative—this school......
Our Soldier Hero. By M. L. Ridley. (j. F. Shaw
and Co.)—A simply told story of the career of a young Christian soldier, one who does his duty first by giving up his desire for the soldier's life when other things seemed to......
Home For The Holidays. By Mrs. C. C. Campbell. (t.
Nelson and Sons.)—This book is a kind of miscellany, an account of how some young people amused themselves, or were amused by their elders, during the holidays ; stories from a......
Hubbard And Her Dog" Being, We Think, The Best.—from The
same publishers we have also The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories, 1887.—Quick March, by "An Old Soldier" (F. Warne and Co.), is a volume of rhymes, with coloured......
The Volumes Which Compose "oar Juniors' Library" (dean...
are generally satisfactory, both in point of writing and illustra- tion. A Soldier's Son, written by Miss E. Strickland, revised by Philip H. Hemyng, is a story of school life,......
Favourite Rhymes For The Nursery. (nelson And Sons.)—the...
the old favourites,—" Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts," and the rest, some two hundred in number ; the illustra- tions are, we suppose, new, and certainly good. There is......
The Six Volumes Of A Series Entitled "the Gordon Library"
(Warne and Co.), have all merits of their own. We are inclined to give the preference among them to The Outpost : a Tale of the Backwoods, by R. Andi é. The scene is laid on the......
Strong To Suffer : A Story Of The Jews. By
E. Wynne. (Cassell and Co.)—This story is laid in the time of Hadrian. The character of this Emperor, his many great qualities, marred as they were by a certain superficiality,......
Thorns And Roles. By Julia Goddard. (routledge And...
is a story of school life in which the familiar incident of the stolen essay and the wrongful accusation plays an important part. Familiar we call it ; but it belongs, we fancy,......
A Hearty Word Of Commendation Is Due To Two Years
in the Region of Icebergs (S.P.C.K.), a muituns in parvo of 121 pages on Newfoundland. The author, the Rev. F. E. J. Lloyd, was appointed in 1882 to the Mission of the Strait of......
The Eversley Secrets. By Evelyn E. Green. (mackie And Son.)—
This is a story of domestic life, the " secrets " being surprises which a family of children prepare against the return of their mother, and other things less agreeable. The......
Some Essays Of Elia. Illustrated By C. 0. Murray. (sampson
Low and Co.)—Fifteen of the essays, the best, if we may presume to make the distinction, anyhow the best-known, are plentifully illus. trated in this volume by Mr. Murray's......
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