Pictures From Shelley. Designed By Etheline E. Dell....
James D. Cooper. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume contains twenty-four illustrations of various passages from Shelley, " a suitable accompaniment," the designer hopes, " to his......
The Pilots Of Pomona. By Robert Leighton. (blackie And Son.)
—This is " a story of the Orkney Islands," Pomona being another name for " Mainland," the largest of the group. It is supposed to be told by one of the actors in the little......
Heroines In Humble Life. By L. G. Seguin. (religious Tract
Society.)—The founder of the Monthyon "Prizes for Virtue" was a French nobleman, the Baron de Monthyon, who, after serving under Louis XV. and XVI., emigrated at the time of the......
Among New Editions Of Books More Or Less Well Known,
we have : — Uncle Tom's Cabin. By H. Beecher-Stowe. (John Hogg.)—Dr. A. H. Japp has prefixed a memoir, and the original illustrations, one hundred in number, by the late George......
Richard Tregellas. By David Lawson Johnstone. (oliphant,...
Tregellas is supposed to write in the first person " a memoir of his adventures in the West Indies in the year of grace 1781." Here, again, the motive is one that writers, and,......
Of Yearly Volumes Of Magazines, We Have To Notice :—our
Own Gazette. Edited by Mrs. Stephen Menzies. (S. W. Partridge and Co.) —This periodical is the organ of the Young Women's Christian Association. It contains fiction in......
Story Poems For Young And Old. Edited By E. Davenport.
(Cassell and Co.)—The editor, who has already brought out poetry- books for boys and for girls, now tries his hand (or is it her ?) on a more comprehensive selection. This he......
Some Historic Women. By W. H. Davenport Adams. (j. Hogg.)
—Mr. Adams tells again various stories which will be more or less familiar to readers of history. He classes bis heroines in groups,—" Woman as Patriot," " Woman as the......
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