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The Story Of John G. Paton. Told For Young Folks

by the Rev. James Paton. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here is a book of adventure — adventure in real life — which it would not be easy to match in fiction. "Thirty Years Among South......

Mr. Batter's Pedigree. By Horace G. Hutchinson. "the...

Library of Wit and Humour." (Henry and Co.)—Some very happy descriptions of Mexican, and particularly Californian, life are to be found in Mr. Batter's Pedigree, as good,......

Legendary Fictions Of The Irish Celts. Collected And...

Patrick Kennedy. (Macmillan.)—The folk-lore of the Celtic inhabitants of Ireland, and the legends of the heroic period of the country, make together the subject of Mr. Kennedy's......

The Boys' Ch.pn Annual And The Girls' Own A.nnw4l....

Tract Society.)—These two volumes are as fell of good reading and spirited illustration as usual, and are, as usual, distinguished by just the right sort of differences. The......

For God And Humanity : A Romance Of Mount Carmel.

By Haskett Smith, M.A. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—If Mr. Haskett Smith had not told us that Cyril Gordon was in- tended to portray Laurence Oliphant, it is possible that wo......

Historic Houses Of The United Kingdom. (cassell And Co.)—...

we have descriptions, the work of skilful pencils and pens of four-and-twenty famous houses, beginning with Welbeck Abbey, and ending with Chillingham Castle, the interest of......

Three Little Periodical Volumes May Be Mentioned...

Annual (Clarke and Co.), very copiously illustrated, it has three hundred pictures, among which the drawings of animals seem to us notably good ; Little Folks, New and Enlarged......

A Delightful Volume, Including As It Does Under Its Covers

three old favourites, is Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and Lob Lie- by - the - Fire, by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott (S.P.C.K.) Author and......

The Magic Ink, And Other Tales. By William Black. (sampson

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Of the three tales Mr. Black has given us, we must select " A Hallowe'en Wraith " as the best. Tho author's delicate touch, his complete sympathy with the......

Pambaniso, A Kaffir Hero. By Thomas Ross Beattie....

Marston, and Co.)—This is not one of the fictions with which our boys and girls are wont to be entertained and instructed, more or less, at this season, but a true chronicle of......

The Bull - Calf And Other Tales. By A. B. Frost. (nimmo.) —

Mr. Frost tells by the aid of a comic pencil and a sparing use of letterpress curious stories of misadventure,—how a philanthropist buys a calf because he thinks it cruel to......

The Risen Dead. By Florence Marryat. (spencer, Blackett,...

Risen Dead is not up to the level of Florence Marryat's previous novels. Unpleasant as some of them are, their writer possesses a certain power of describing the lower passions......