In The Land Of Shame. By Major Charles Gilson. (roy's
Own Paper Office. 5s.) Mystery and adventure of a nightmarish kind. A swindler is defeated at his own game ; and the two heroes go of to Africa in search of a magic plant -that,......
Aladdin. By J. C. Rulme Beaman. (lane. 5s. Net.) -
The story is well thougli not, perfectly told. The pictures tire very gay and formal. (Conanued on page 952.)......
Mrs. Strang's Annual For Children. (humphrey Milford. 5s....
Above the average in production. Thoroughly pleasant but not distinguished.......
Chatterbox-newsbox. (wells Gardner. 2s. Not.) Information...
things—Elizabeth Fry, habits of chameleons, how to make armour out of cardboard, and so on, for children from seven. Very nice indeed.......
The Queen Who Came To Town. By Dulcima Mosby. (dent.
5s. net.) Queen Elizabeth in modern London, amusingly handled. No buffoonery. For children of imagination from nine to eleven.......
The Little Girl Who Kept Fairies. By Christine Jope Slade.
(Nisbet. 5s. net.) A pleasant, fanciful story with particularly charming pictures. For little girls from six to ten.......
- Pleasant, Light Little Songs. A Wonderfully Pretty Book...
the price.......
Other Christmas Books
BOOKS FOR BOYS JOHN OF THE FENS. By Bernard Gilbert. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 6s.) A vigorous tale of the Civil War, in which Cromwell—every boy's heib—rewards John, for the......
Yo-ho-ho ! By E. R. Spencer. (chambers. 3s. 6d.)...
Dick signs on the ' Sea Nymph,' a pirate ship running whiskey into America from St. Pierre, " the only French colony in the Atlantic." Exciting but crude.......
The Banja Pirates. By Peter Blundell. (oxford Univer-...
Os.) Jack Carton finds himself aboard the brig ' Neptune,' which is on commission to put down piracy in Malaya. Jadk is captured by a " pirate Sultan " and sold as a slave ; but......
A History Of Steamships, From Symington's ' Charlotte...
of the eighteenth century to the latest Cunard and White Star liners. A mine of information for the mechanically minded who, perhaps, will not object to the lecture-tactics of......
The Little Discoverers. By Amy Le Feuvre. (hum-
phrey Milford. 2s. 6d. net.) _ An old-fashioned book, very pleasant and decorous and a ' little sentimental, for children of seven and eight.......
For Children Under Ten
One of the best of the annuals for small children. Quite as good as those published at 5s.......
Traffics Much In Modern Battle And Murder And Sudden Death.
But such things, apparently, must be4--if only to provide excuse for helicopter aeroplanes, - rays' slesigned to put a magneto out of action, and an upstart republic called......
In Quest Of Peril. By Alfred Judd. (nelson. 58.)
A dozen stories setting forth the exploits of Major Brand and his son Dick, both of whom seem born to adventure as the sparks fly upwards. From Fiji to Klondike these neat......
A Book Of Steamers. (mackie. 2s. Net.)
Not for the boy who wants details of engines and con- struction, but a pretty and attractive book.......
Blackie's Children's Annual. (biocide. 5s. Net.) The Same...
thing ; but this year with particularly interesting letter-press.......
The Picnic Book. (doan. 2s. Not.)
A cheap, cheerful, strong book for children under four.......
Books
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS m.xxix GORKI'S Reminiscences of My Youth (Heinemann) give us new material for wonder at the instability and extrava- gance of the Russian soul. We are so......
The Tiny Folks Annual. Mrs. Herbert Strang. (hum- Phrey...
3s. 6d. )• Up to its usual high standard. Nct highbrow, but much likedby its public of children of four and under.......
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