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Stories From Waverley. By Mrs. Alfred Barton. Second...

and C. Black.)—These are abbreviations from Sir Walter Scott, the present series containing three stories, viz., " Old Mortality," " The Fair Maid of Perth," and " The Pirate."—......

The Second Book Of Nursery Rhymes. Set To Music By

Joseph S._ Moorat. Illustrated by Paul Woodroffe. (George Allen.)—The success of the first book of nursery rhymes set to music by Mr. . Moorat and illustrated by Mr. Woodroffe,......

The Dwarfs Tailor, And Others : Fairy - Tales From All...

Collected by Zoe Dana Underhill. (Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.) —This is a very choice collection of twenty odd tales ; some of them may be familiar to well-read children, but all......

The Crystal City Under The Sea. Translated From The French

of Andre Laurie. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Andre Laurie has not a little of the fantastic imagination of Jules Verne, and there certainly could hardly be anything more wildly......

The Romance Of Mary Bain. By C. H. Cochran-patrick. (j.

S. Virtue.)—If the motive of Mary Sain's story is somewhat weak, it is one that has taken place in real life,—i.e, the entrapping of a, woman into a marriage by means of a......

The Missing Prince. By G. E. Farrow. Illustrated By Harry

Furniss and Dorothy Furniss. (Hutchinson and Co.)—There are some capital songs in The Missing Prince, and now and then some capital ideas, but we do not think the book is nearly......