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The Old, Old Fairy - Tales. Collected And Edited By Mrs....

tine. (F. Warne and Co.)—Here are forty of the fairy-tales that have delighted many generations of children. The names of Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and the Princess de......

Golden Silence. By Emma Marshall. (nisbet.)—this Is A...

story of a simple kind, quite up to the level of the author of " Mrs. Matchett's Mistake," and not too long. It chronicles the material, and still more the moral, ups and downs......

The Eagle Cliff. By R. M. Ballantyne. (partridge.)—this...

of the pleasantest, best constructed, most humorous, and most im- probable stories that Mr. Ballantyne has written. It is a positive triumph in the way of plot-invention for him......

Betwixt The Forelands.*

IT was a happy thought of Mr. Clark Russell's to give us a volume of pleasant talk about the stretch of coast which lies between the Forelands. None, not even that which reaches......

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GIFT-BOOKS. For Honour's Sake. By Jennie Chappell. (Partridge.)—This is an easy-flowing story which runs on familiar lines. In it a marriage takes place which is a mistake, and......

Eena Romney. By Myra Felton. (griffith, Farran, Okeden,...

book differs from most works of the class to which it belongs—the class of Evangelical fiction—in that the scene is laid not in England, but in New South Wales, whither Mr.......