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The Queen's Hounds. By Lord Ribblesdale. (longmans And...

one has a better right to be the historian of the-Queen's Hounds than Lord Ribblesdale. • He held office as Master of the Buckhounds from 1892 to 1895 under somewhat peculiar......

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THE laNOIL MAGAZINES. Besides a fresh instalment of the delightful " Etchingbam Letters," and the first chapters of a new story by Mr. S. R. Crockett, "Little Anna Mark," which......

With Bat And Ball. By George Giffen. (ward, Lock, And

Co.) —" Five and Twenty Years' Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket" is the sub-title of this volume. Mr. Giffen is still under forty, so that his quarter of......

Dolly The Romp. By Florence Warden. (f. V. White And

Co., —Children who are always in mischief or making mistakes art more apt to be tiresome in fiction than in real life. In life there are intervals of sobriety and sanity; in......