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Baby's Biography. By H. M. *m. Illustrated By Nat. R.

Prince. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s.)—This book, we are told, is designed " to afford parents, and more especially mothers, an opportunity of keeping a continuous record of......

Mabel's Prince Wonderful. By W. E. Cale. (w. And E.

Chambers. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the stories which would hardly have existed but for " Alice in Wonderland." Mabel makes " a trip to Storyland," and sees a number of figures......

Homes And Haunts Of The Pilgrim Fathcrs. By Alexander...

D.D. (R.T.S. 30s. net.)—Dr. Mackennal makes us understand why the subject which he treats has come into prominence within quite recent times. It is, we must explain, the......

Loyal. By Arthur Collard. (s. W. Partridge And Co. 2s.

6d.) —There is something worth reading in this " story of a mer- cantile marine officer." Mr. Clark Russell has set the fashion in nautical romance of going to the Merchant......

Some Verse, So Obviously Careless And Hasty That We Cannot

honestly call it more than passable. When the shepherd boy and the fisherman, each discontented with his lot in life, pass each other, why did they do it "with a nod......

Gift-books.

TALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.* Mn. HENTY, who must soon, we should think, have to sigh for new worlds to write about, gives us his usual, or even more than his usual, allowance of......