Sturdy And Stilts ; Or, Firm Friends. By Annette Lyster.
(S.P.C.K.)—A good description of a friendship is rare in litera- ture. Possibly the cause is that the grown-up people who write books have mostly forgotten what friendship......
Miss Bobbie. By Ethel S. Turner (mrs. Curlewis). (ward,...
and Co.)—This is a very lively story of children and their ways from the other side of the world. The young people who hold their heads to the Southern Cross seem to be very......
Little Grown-ups. With Illustrations By Maud Humphrey And...
Verses by Elizabeth S. Tucker. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Here we have some dozen or so charming pictures of children playing at the amusements or occupations of their elders.......
Some New Novels.*
THE clever joint authors of An Irish Cousin and gaboth's Vineyard have once more collaborated with signal success in The Silver Fox, a short novel in which the conflict of......
Olga ; Or, Wrong On Both Sides. By Viii. Vincent.
(Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.)—The Earl of Grantown and his son, Lord Tempeston, are certainly as awkward a pair as ever had to live together. The author is quite impartial......
The Homeward Voyage. By Harry Collingwood. (s.p.c.k.)— A...
clipper, just before leaving port for England, has a consignment of two millions-worth of gold. Not, however, before an audacious Yankee gets wind of the affair and ships with......
Current Literat Etre.
GIFT-BOOKS. More Beasts (for Worse Children). Verses by" H. B." Pictures by " B T. B." (Edward Arnold.)—Mr. Belloc and Lord Basil Blackwood—the secret is, we understand, an open......
Vince The Rebel. By G Manville Fenn. (w. And R.
Chambers.) —This is a story of Monmouth's Rebellion. We do not see much of the fighting. for the scene is mostly laid at the old house sur- rounded by bog; but Vince, the nephew......
The Adventures Of A Stowaway. By Fred. Whishaw....
Browne, and Co.)—It must be confessed that the lachry- mose little boy who is introduced to us in the first chapter, and to whom his schoolfellows not unnaturally give the name......
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