Pepin, The Dancing Bear. By Katharine S. Macquoid....
and Sons.)—Mrs. Macquoid tells a pathetic tale. Joseph Le Bas takes his dancing bear, Pepin by name, from his home by the Isere on a long journey into Germany, hoping to reap a......
Miriam's Ambition. By E. Everett Green. (blackie And...
author who puts into a hook but one thing so good as the five-year-old "Babs " (otherwise Arabella) has not failed. She is a most delightful little creature—to read about. The......
The Opal Mountain. By Henry Frith. (griffith, Farran, And...
is indeed "a tale of adventure," and of very strange adventure too. A family party, consisting of two brothers with their four sons, meet with some very curious experiences in......
The Two Brothers : A Fairy - Tale. By Mrs. Hall. (griffith,
Far-ran, and Co.)—This tale is written, as we are told, in the simplest style and language, for the amusement of children o f from eight to fourteen years of age." The author......
My Friend Smith. By Talbot Baines Reed. (religious Tract...
"Story of School and City Life" deserves, in a way, the commendation given by the writer of the preface,—him- self a well-known contributor to this kind of literature. The hero......
Things Will Take A Turn. By Beatrice Harraden. (blackie And
Son.)—This is a pretty little story, told in a particularly lively fashion. One need not inquire too closely into the probability of the incidents. The world would certainly be......
More Magic. By Professor Hoffmann. (routledge And Sons.)...
we think, more than once recorded the appearance of a volume by Mr. Hoffmann, under the title of " Modern Magic." Now we find that this treatise has been complained of as "not......
For Auld Lang Syne. By Alice Weber. (griffith, Farran, And
Co.)—We have included this among the " Gift-Books " of the year, because it comes in the guise which this literature generally assumes. It really is a novel, decidedly above the......
Somebody's Darling. By Catharine Shaw. (john F. Shaw.)— A...
little tale, this, of child-life. Olive, who lives with an uncle and aunt, welcomes to England her mother and a little sister returning from India. There is an admirable ayah,......
Exiles Of Fortune. By Gordon Stables, M.d. (j. F. Shaw.)—
The " Far North Land," of which Dr. Stables here gives us a tale is Alaska, a novelty, as far as we remember, in fiction, and not often described by travellers. The incident......
Dorothy Arden. By J. M. Callwell. (nelson And Sons.)—this
" story of England and France two hundred years ago" is so con- trived that it takes in the Dragonnades in the days of Louis XIV. and Monmouth's rebellion. We are inclined to......
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