Two Old Stories Retold. By Mona Noel Paton. Illustrated By
Hubert Paton. (Banks and Co., Edinburgh.)—The two "old stories" are "Beauty and the Beast" and "Jack the Giant- Killer," old favourites which one is always glad to meet again.......
Church. Bells Album. (southampton Street, Strand.)—the...
bears the title of "Notable Churches of the City of London." There are twenty-two in all, St. Paul's and the Temple Church having accorded to them the honour of a double notice......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. It is always a pleasure to review volumes of such sterling value as the annual issues of Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D., and the Sunday Magazine, edited......
A 1 Annual. (s. W. Partridge And Co.).—this Is The
second annual volume of an excellent periodical. It contains a plentiful supply of fiction, for there are no less than six stories, among them a tale of adventure, "Eagle......
Randolph Caldecott's Sketches. With Introduction By Henry...
and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting volume. In it we get, with the help of Mr. Blackburn's introduction, something like a complete view of Caldecott's career as a......
Our Darlings. Edited By Dr. Barnard°. (j. F. Shaw.)—this...
Treasury of Pictures and Stories" is always welcome, both for its own sake, for it is full of entertainment and instruc- tion, and also for that of its editor, whose good work......
Adrift In The Pacific. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low And
Co.) —This tale calls, as may be supposed, for something more than the • cursory notice which we gave it in the magazine volume in which it first appeared. A number of boys who......
The Waverley Proverbial Birthday - Book (remington And...
of the "Proverbs and other Wise Sayings to be found in the Waverley Novels," collected by Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews. It is curious to see how Scott repeated himself in......
Japanese Jingles. Written And Illustrated By Katheleen...
Darton, and Co.)—Unfortunately, we cannot transfer to our columns any specimens of Miss Lucas's drawings ; and it would not be fair to her jingles to quote them apart from the......
Iniquity Of The Opium Traffic. Chang And Lingsam Are Lovers,
and by a happy combination of circumstances—for marriages are arranged in China, it would seem, without much regard to the affections—become man and wife. Everything seems to......
A Narrative Of The Peninsular Campaign. Abridged From Sir W.
Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula," by William T Dobson. (Bickers and Son.)—Mr. Dobson has taken the narrative of the principal battles and sieges of the eight......
Severn - Side : The Story Of A Friendship. (w. P. Nimmo
and Co., Edinburgh.)—We hope that the readers for whom this volume— part of a "Young Ladies' Library "—is intended will not have so stormy an experience of love as Dorothy and......
Kate Greenawwy's Book Of Games (routledge And Sons) Gives...
of some forty games, outdoor and indoor, with rules and, when they are wanted, as in "hop-scotch," a diagram, and above all, with drawings from her always charming pencil. Her......
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