18 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 9

We have yet another Fifty - two Stories, edited by Alfred H.

Miles (Hutchinson and Co., 5s.), stories this time "of the wide, wide world," not materially different, it is true, from its prede- cessors, for it consists of tales of adventure in all parts of the earth, but arranged with something more of system.—Another collection of stories, not claiming to be true, except as true to Nature, is Parkhurst Sketches, and other Stories, by Talbot Baines Reed (R.T.S., 2s. 6d.), scattered sketches by one of the most sue- easeful writers for young readers which originally appeared in the Boy's Own Paper, and are now republished for the first time.