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Charles And Mary Lamb's Tales For Children.* To A Jesuit

Father is attributed the significant saying,—" Give me a child till he is seven years old, and you can do what you like with him afterwards." If the Jesuit was right in holding......

The Wanderings Of Ulysses. By Professor C. Witt....

the German by Frances Younghasband. (Longmans.)—Here we have the story of the Odyssey given with mach detail. The work is well done, both by author and translator, as might be......

The Rosebud.annual (james Clarke And Co.) Is The...

year now coming to an end of an excellent little magazine, intended for the little ones, and made, we should say, to suit their wants and tastes very well. The illustrations,......

Famous Cares And Catacombs. Described And Illustrated. By...

Davenport Adams. (Nelson and Sons.) —Mr. Adams describes the caves of Egypt and India, the cave of Trophonins, the catacombs of Rome (which naturally occupy a considerable......

A Tangled Web. By Emily Sarah Holt. (j. F. Shaw

and Cod)— Miss Holt has chosen for the subject of her tale the perplexed his- torical problem of Perkin Warbeek, and has woven the facts (she adheres to the impostor theory, and......

The Child's Pictorial (s.p.0 K.) Is A New Venture, Of

which we have here the first volume, including the eight numbers from May to December. It is good of its kind ; bright in every way, and we cordially- wish it success.......

Tr1443 Stories Of The Reign Of Queen Victoria, By Cornelius

Brawn (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.), contains the working-out of a good idea. Mr. Brown begins with the reign of the Queen, and picks oat a number of interesting persons and......

The Lion Of The North. By G. A. Henty. (blaokie

and Son.)— Here, in this "Tale of the Time of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion," we have another pleasant admixture of history and fiction. No one produces this kind......

We Have Two Of "mr. Randolph Caldecott's Picture Beeke"...

ledge and Sons),—Oliver Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Glory ef Mistress Mary Blaize" and The Great Panjandrum Himself. It isueedless to praise them. We are interested in learning......

Seeking A Country. By The Rev. E. N. Hoare. (nelson

and Sons.) —This is a story of the going forth of the Pilgrim Fathers of the "Mayflower,' and the other familiar names connected - with the founding of the New England colonies.......

Current Literature.

GIFT BOOKS. The Dragon and the Raven ; or, the Days of King Alfred. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a spirited romance, told by Mr. Henty with all the skill which he......