Pages And Pictures From Porgotten Children's Books....
Andrew W. Tuer. (Leadenhall Press.)—Mr. Tuer has certainly "brought together," as he modestly describes his function, a number of curious and interesting things. We have......
Longman's Christmas Annual, Edited By G. A. Henty...
Co.), bears the title of "Yule Logs," and consists of eleven stories, the work of Mr. Henty himself, and of ten other writers of fiction, Messrs. Kirk Munroe, G. Manville Fenn,......
Maidens Three. By A. Fraser Robertson. (r.t.s.)—three...
been close friends—" chums," to use the most appropriate word—leave school together, and this story follows their fortunes. Esther Hatton, who tells the story, is the eldest of......
An Antarctic Mystery. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low,...
Co.)—It is not a bad idea for an author who finds his imagination growing exhausted—or shall we say weary ?—to take a romance and build another romance upon it. Nor would it be......
Under Wellington's Command. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And...
is a continuation, and a very successful continuation, of "With Moore in Corunna." We have a very distinct remem- brance of Terence O'Connor, a wild Irish lad who develops......
/a Goodly Company. By Frances E. Cooke. (swan Sonnen- Schein
and Co.)—We do not think that the "claims of biography are apt to be disregarded." On the contrary, lives are written that might be left alone. But Miss Cooke's heroes and......
Jasper's Sweet Briar. By Catherine E. Mallandaine....
features of this story—a warm-hearted girl marrying a man beneath her, not so much in station as in edues- tion, estrangement, the disciplining of natures, and reconcilia-......
Nellie And Her Models. By G. R. Wynne, D.d. (s.p.c.k.)—
The subject of Dr. Wynne's tale is sufficiently familiar. Nellie Forbes is a spoilt and selfish girl, one who had never been led to think of others. But she is not stupid, and......
The Island Of The English. By Frank Cowper, M.a. (seeley
and Co.)—The "Island of the English" is not, as might be supposed, England, but a, little islet, Tisaoson by name, lying off the coast of Brittany. The story belongs to the time......
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