The Child S Own Magazine. (sunday School Union.)—a Good...
magazine well adapted for its purpose, with illustrations of no small merit. The " Little Eskimos at School " are capital. We observe that the magazine has a writing......
Current Literature.
A Daughter of Rome. From the German cf Louisa Pichler. (Digby and Long.)—This " Romance of the Fatherland" tolls the story of the Emperor, mingled with various romantic......
Watch And Watch ; Or, The Decoyed. By William Charles
Met- calfe. (Nisbet and Co.)—T his is a sea story with a very curious plot. The " decoyed" are a party from the ship Albatross,' who are induced by signals of distress to board......
The Close Of St. Christopher's. By Emma Marshall. (nisbet...
Co.)—This "story of girls," though it has nothing remarkable about it, is told in the tasteful, sensible way which we are accus- tomed to look for in Mrs. Marshall's work.......
The Bridge Of Beauty. By Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. (sunday
School Union.)—We always expect a thorough knowledge of the class life of the people she writes about from Mis. Banks, and in The Bridge of Beauty we are not disappointed. The......
The Expositor's Bible; Ezra, Nehemiah, And Esther. By...
Adeney. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Professor Adeney brings much breadth of mind, as well as depth of knowledge, to the treatment of his subject. He is evidently not bound by......
Westward With Columbus. By Gordon Stables. (blackio And...
The picture which Dr. Gordon Stables gives us of the early life and boyhood of Columbus in Genoa is very real and interesting, and the hero is a most effective figure from the......
The Boy's Own Annual (religious Tract Society) Is As Full
of good stories and instruction—moral, scientific, and technical—as over. Such names as Ballantyne, Blake, Hope, Ker, Malan, Reed, Stables, Jules Verne, and others as good, are......
With The Sea Kings. By F. H. Winder. (blaekie And
Son.)— The two young heroes, Trevellon and Arwen, go through some very stirring adventures on board the Ocean Witch,' a privateer in the days of Nelson. Indeed, the' Ocean......
The Gentle Heritage. By Frances E. Compton. (a. D. Lanes.)
—This is a story, if it may be called a story, told by a child. She describes the sayings and doings of her brothers and sisters, and how they make acquaintance, and finally......
Namesakes. By E. Everett Green. (hutchinson And Co.)— We...
plenty of characters in Namesakes, two or three very slight love stories, and a rather unpleasant secret, which concerns the right of two cousins to a property, the question......
Just Like Jack. By Gordon Stables. (hodder And...
Gordon Stables herein relates with much vivacity the adven- tures of a harum-scarum Scotch boy and his inseparable companion, a faithful Skye terrier. Jack plays all sorts of......
The Heir Of Sandyscombe. By K. M. Eady. (sunday School
Union.)—The heir is a proud, penniless, foolish person, who, after embarking in a wild building speculation at the instigation of a swindling contractor, goes through adventures......
Gift-books.
TWO HISTORICAL TALES.* Mn. HENTY does not think it necessary to expend much subtlety in drawing his heroes. They are amazingly like each other,—Virgil's fortisque Oyas fortisque......
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