Red Apple And Silver Bells. By Hamish Hendry. Illustrated By
Alice B. Woodward. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Hendry's "verses for children of all ages" are fairly good, but not quite up to the mark of the best article of the kind. The......
Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated By F. D. Bedford. (methuen...
we have some old favourites, as "Old King Cole," with some that are new to us, as " The Whale" (not modern, we presume, or it would not be called a " fish "). The art is of the......
Two Stories By Jules Verne.*
THE hero of Clovis Dardentor is a native of Southern France, and M. Jules Verne does full justice to the exuberant and vivacious temperament of the "man from Perpignan." We are......
The Pink Fairy - Book. By Andrew Lang. (longmans And Co.)...
Lang has exhausted the primary colours without coming to an end of his store of fairy-tales. This time he has gone farther afield, though without finding much that is new. Japan......
The Quiver. (cassell And Co.)—this "illustrated Magazine...
general reading" keeps up to its standard very well. Besides the usual element of fiction of the more serious kind there is a series of papers on Sundays with various Royalties.......
With Moore At Comma. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And
Son.) .—This is a very spirited story, well worthy to be ranked with the best of Mr. Henty's work. Terence O'Connor is the son of an officer in the "Mayo Fusiliers," who up to......
Scarlet Feather. By Henry J. Barker. (griffith, Farran,...
Co.)—This "story of adventure among the Indiana of Arizona" is of the usual typo. It has the merit of going to the point at once. Blake Middleton goes out to see his brother and......
Miss Mouse And Her Boys. By Mrs. Molosworth. (macmillan And
Co.)—" Miss Mouse," really named Rosamond, is the child of parents who are living in India, and comes to stay with the five Harvey boys. Our readers know bow Mrs. Molesworth......
Sunday Reading For The Young. (wells Gardner, Dayton, And...
is, both as regards letterpress and illustrations, as good a magazine of the kind, and for the end at which it aims, as there is to be found. We can speak from experience of the......
A March On London. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And
Son.)—It is, perhaps, a fault in this story that it wants unity. The "March on London" is concerned with the insurrection of Wat Tyler, but this part of the tale is practically......
That It Is Meant For A Gift-book. We Accordingly Include
it among our notices of these publications, but with a most emphatic warning to our readers not on any account to give it. It will be quite sufficient to quote from the......
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