5 DECEMBER 1885, page 24

On Honour's Roll : Tales Of Heroism In The Nineteenth

Century. Selected and edited by Mrs. Valentine. (F. Warne)—Here are between fifty and a hundred stories of adventure and enterprise, gathered together from famous books of......

Minor Sroaies.—rhoda, By Agnes C. Maitland (remington),...

and, from the literary point of view, rather superior novel, with a conventional plot. It is the old story of a desperate mother sacrificing truth and justice for the sake of......

The Paths Of Peace And Snow-flakes Are Very Prettily And

attractively got up and illustrated. We cannot say much for the illustrations in Good Cheer; but the story is capital. The description of "the toun " and its inhabitants on the......

Sketches, Personal And Pensive. By William Hodgson....

author of these essays is obviously a Scotch Conservative publicist ; but as his Conservatism is composed chiefly of kind-heartedness, Wordsworthian sympathy with Nature and the......

A Short History Of The Netherlands. By Alexander Young. (t.

Fisher Unwin.)—This is a too closely printed, and not too well illas- trated, but pleasantly written volume on a subject which has not lost any of its attractiveness for......

Christmas Angel. By B. L. Farjeon. Illustrated By Gordon...

(Ward and Downey.)—As a rule, stories which depend for their interest on dreams or visions, or on some sort of super- natural machinery, are not to be commended. If the fact is......

The Silver Trumpet. By L. T. Meade. (hodder And Stoughton.)

—This is a picture, drawn with the touches, minute as well as vigorous, which the author knows how to give, of life among the poor. A certain tin box which a sailor has left in......

Escaped From Siberia (routledge And Sons) Is A...

Henry Frith from the French of MM. Tissot and Amero. A very good story it is. The hero is a student who is banished because his sympathy with the exiled poet Davidoff excites......

We Have Received, From Isbister And Co, Their Three...

numbers of Good Words and the Sunday Magazine —namely, Good Cheer, The Paths of Peace, and Snow-Flakes—the last being the children's Christmas number of the Sunday Magazine ;......