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Songs Of The Spindle And Legends Of The Loom. Selected

and arranged by H. H. Warner. (N. J. Powell and Co.)—This volume comes in plain and homely guise among the gorgeously coloured and ornamented throng that competes for popular......

Messrs. Cassell And Co.'s Saturday Journal Makes Up Into An

annual volume of goodly size, and full of entertaining reading. It is very strong in fiction. We have Miss Florence Warden's " St. Cuthbert's Tower," which has already been......

The Appeal To The Serpent ; Or, Life In An

Ancient Buddhist City. By the Rev. Samuel Langdon. (Religious Tract Society).—To take the reader back to " Ceylon in the Fourth Century A.D." (surely this is not a correct use......

Banning And Blessing. By The Author Of " The Atelier

du Lye." (National Society.)—This tale centres in the doings of Lois Smerdon, a " black " witch, who had the luck of living at a time when witches were no longer burnt or......

The `blue Dragon.' By Frances Mary Peard. (national...

is a tale of the latest years of the fifteenth century. As a tale, indeed, it loses something from the variety of interests which the author has introduced. She has evidently......

Yours And Mine. By Anna B. Warner. (nisbet And Co.)—a

pleasant little story this, which has for its moral and purpose the necessary truth, which it is yet one of the very hardest things to learn, which the Christian Church began by......

Such Matters As Signalling, Traffic, Permanent-way, And...

the liability of Companies, are common to most rail- ways, but the geneial tenor of the work reflects the working of Mr. Findlay's own line ; while the description of engines,......