Papuan Fairy Tales. By Annie Ker. (macmillan And Co. 5s.
net.)—These folk-lore tales, forty in number, were collected by Miss Ker during a sojourn of nine years at a mission station on the north-east coast of Papua. She has done well......
In The Series Of " English Literature For Schools "
(Cambridge University Press, ls. per vol.) we have three volumes,—Jane Austen's " Pride and Prejudice," Abridged and Edited by Mrs. Frederic Boss; Selected Essays of Goldsmith,......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review is other forms.] Diplomatic Memories. By John W. Foster. 2 vols. (A. Constable and Co.......
The Church Of England In The Eighteenth Century. By Alfred
Plummer. (Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Plummer in his introductory chapter enlarges on the amount of material with which he has to deal, and the difficulty of drawing any......
The Children's Cyclopaedia. Edited By Arthur Mee. 8 Vols....
House. £2 17s.)—This work, which has been appearing for some time in numbers, is now published as a whole. Eight volumes containing five thousand three hundred and seventy-six......
Prom Coalmine Upwards. By James Dunn. (w. Green. 2s.)— Mr.
Dunn began his working life in the coalpit. He was eight years of age; he had to be at the pithead at 6 a.m., and ho commonly earned half-a-crown a week. Things were put on a......
The Works Of James Buchanan. Vol. X. (j. B. Lippincott
Company. 12 vols., £12 12s.)—This volume contains the corre- spondence, &c., of Mr. Buchanan from January 4th, 1856, to August 2nd, 1860. He was inaugurated as President on......
A Wardour Street Idyll. By Sophie Cole. (mills And Boon.
6s.)—This is a story of a gentleman who keeps a curiosity-shop in Wardour Street, and his lady typist, with whom he inevitably falls in love. The complication is that he has......
Mumble Novels.—such And Such Things. By Mark Allerton....
Co. 6s.)—A clever but distinctly unpleasiug study of a North Briton who has a genius for seeing opportunities and taking them.—Mary Cary. By Hate Langley Bosher. (Harper and......
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