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Which Occasionally Touches With Effect On Real Life....

too, are woven into the context, and there are soma quaintly attractive pictures.......

Muriel And Her Aunt Lis. By May Baldwin. (w. And

R. Chambers. 5s.)—Readers who may remember Miss Baldwin's "Peg's Adventures in Paris" will expect to find something good in this new story, and will not be disappointed. Muriel......

We Gladly Welcome Certain Old Favourites, All Of Them...

by Messrs. Wells Gardner, Dation, and Co. Precedence must be accorded to Chatterbox (3s., and 5s. cloth). Its four hundred and twelve pages are filled with attractive matter.......

Long-lost Brother Dick, Accompanied By His Nephew And Two...

heroines of this story. Their yacht is wrecked, and the three young people cast on an island. The brother departs on a some- what foolhardy expedition to seek relief, and so we......

The Bitter South. By F. T. Bullen. (r. Culley. 5s.)—ted

Trevannion, a retired sailor, who has lost most of his money by unlucky ventures on land, invests what is left in a craft with which he intends to follow the whaler's business......

Beasts Of Business. By Ascott R. Hope. (a. And C.

Black es. eel.)—Mr. A.scott Hope has divided his book into eight chapters. In the first seven he treats of the "Horse," "Ass and Mule," "Ox," "Dog," "Elephant," "Camel," and......

The Failure Of A Hero. By M. Bram.ston. (s.p.c.k. 2s.)—no

reader can complain of the company which he meets in this book. He is introduced to Shakespeare, Essex, Balogh, John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Francis Bacon, and Richard Hooker.......

Stories From Dante, Told By Mary Macgregor, And Stories From

Wagner, Told by C. E. Smith. In the latter the stories are "Lohengrin," "The Meistersingers of Nuremberg," and "The Flying Dutchman." The second is well suited to the purpose ;......

For King Or Parliantent ? By Samuel Horton. (r. Culley.

38. 6d.)—There is nothing particularly novel about this book. Every year brings us fresh stories about the Civil War, and the complication which makes the Puritan young man fall......

Mr. T. Fisher Unwin Publishes A New Edition Of Nathaniel

Hawthorne's Tangiewood Tales (68.) Under this title are included "The Wonder Book" and the "Tanglewood Tales," properly so called, which wore a continuation of the first. There......

The Secret Of The Sargasso. By Robert M. Macdonald. (t.

Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—This is a very exciting story indeed. The " Cosmopolites " to whom we are introduced in chap. 1 are very like pirates, and their craft, the 'Lucifer,' has a......

Yarns For Bay Scouts. By Lieutenant-general Baden-powell....

2s.)—Wo are none of us too old to enjoy General Baden-Powell's fund of reminiscence and anecdote. If any man can point the moral and adorn the tale—for the Boy Scouts—it is the......