Mademoiselle's Story. By Mrs. Ryffel. (griffith, Ferran,...
the story of a young French lady who goes to act the part of governess to a Scotch family, and it consists in the relation of what we suppose might very well take place under......
In Joint Guardians, By Evelyn Everett-green (religions...
have one of the beat examples of an avowedly but not ostentatiously good book. There is rather a crowd of characters in it, owing to the fact that Sir Reginald Tempest, a......
Barbara A Story Of Cloud And Sunshine. By Clara Vance.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This story is not altogether to our taste. The idea of the unnatural uncle is as old as " The Babes in the Wood," and we cannot see that the sufferers......
Perils In The Transvaal And Zululand. By The Rev. H.
C. Adams, M.A. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This is as good a story of the South African kind as we have read, and that is saying not a little. The possibilities and the......
The Palace Beautiful. By L. T. Meade. (cassell And Co.)—mies
Mead treats her readers here to a downright romance, and a real treat it is. Three girls are left orphans with a slender supply of money. They have friends and would not lack......
Mr. J. Percy Groves May Now Be Described As A
veteran in story- telling, and The Duke's Own (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.) is as clever a book as he has ever written. Bat he has committed one mistake in it; he has endeavoured......
Miss Con ; Or, All Those Girls. By Agnes Giberne.
(J. Nisbet and Co.) —Agnes Giberne is too well known to require praise from us. But we must say how glad we are to get hold of a book that will help girls to become noble women.......
Sukie's Boy. By Sarah Tymer. (hodder And Stoughton.)—...
open a book bearing the name of the author of " Oitoyenne Jacqueline," we may expect to find quiet, subtle delinea- tions of character developed in the course of the narrative,......
The Fifth Form At St. Dominic's. By Talbot Baines Reed.
(Religious Tract Society.)—We quite understand why so many requests have been made to publish this story in a separate form. It appeared first in the Boy's Own Paper, where, of......
Uncle Ivan. By M. Bramston. (national Society's...
of the story Uncle Ivan gets into difficulties with the police, and is allowed to depart from his native Russia on the con- dition of remaining an exile. It is on his nieces,......
My Friend And My Enemy. By Paul Blake. (griffith, Ferran,
and Co.)—The small boy who figures as the hero in the above romance certainly sees more of his enemy than is pleasant. His friend, we may say, hoe incurred the batted of "Black......
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