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The Pikemen. By S. R. Keightley. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)

—"Is it too soon," asks the author of this "Romanc‘of the Ards of Down," "for Romance, daughter of History to tell in her own way of the Great Rising?" Well, the fires are very......

The Mad Interpreter. By Arthur Lee Knight. (grant...

is an actuality about Mr. Knight's story which ought to make it attractive. It is told by one Everard Brooke, midship- man in the 'Ariadne,' then stationed at Muscat, and the......

Beggars Of The Sea. By Tom Bevan. (nelson And Sons.)

—This "Story of the Dutch Struggle with Spain" has for its theme a subject which has been treated we know not how many times before. This is told with spirit, and with as much......

Betty And Co. By Ethel Turner (mrs. H. R. Curlewis).

(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—The first of these twelve stories, which gives its name to the book, is the best, as it is the longest. The children of a doctor's widow set up a shop to......

The Intervening Sea. By David Lyall. (r.t.s. 3s. 6d.)— There

is something conventional in the lines on which this story is built. The figures of the drama which it presents are familiar. We recognise the aristocratic Vanstones, poor and......

Ilderim The Afghan. By David Ker. (r.t.s. 2s. 6d.)—mr. Ker

has, as most young readers know, a gift of picturesque description, nor does he fail to make good use of it in this story, if story it may be called. It is not a little......

An /*eland Afloat. By Gordon Stables, R.n. (nisbet And Co.

5s.)-4t is quite unnecessary at this time of day to recommend Dr. Gordon Stables's books to young readers. This particular story is supposed to be told by "Silas Grigg,......

Two Good Stories.* E

Is' Miss Evelyn Sharp had only known when to hold her band! The picture of the two children in the desolate big house in London is excellent; so is the story of how they ran......

The Young Ice-whalers. By Winthrop Packard. (longmans And...

story has the look of having been written by an expert. The details about whalebone and blubber; about " blackflsh," which the novice mistakes for whales, and are indeed whales,......