North Overland With Franklin. By J. Macdonald Oxley....
61)—Mr. Oxley describes, with close attention to the original narrative, the story of Franklin's second expedition (that, it should be understood, which he made by land,......
The Wonder - Child. By Ethel Turner (mrs. H. R....
3s. Gd.)—Here we have a picture painted with very austere colours of the life of a poor settler in Australia. The family what with want of resources, drought, and other......
Widow Wiley And Some Other Old Folk. By Brown Linnet.
(Seeley and Co. 5s) —This volume gives us sixteen vivid little pictures of country things and country people, illustrated by some photographs. which are as good in their way as......
Norman's Nugget. By J. M. Oxley. (partridge And Co. 2a.)
—Mr. Macdonald Oxley has made Canada his province, though this latest story is neither of the fur-traders nor Arctic explora- tion, but of gold prospecting in the Cariboo......
Sundry Stories Of Boy-life Must, Under The Pressure On Our
space, be noticed together. These are :—Three Sailor Boys, by Verney Lovett Cameron (T. Nelson and Sons, is. 6d.), a story of the Pacific Ocean, where the three boys lose their......
Billets And Bullets. By Hugh St. Leger. (griffith,...
Co. 3s. 61)—Hugh St. Leger has certainly given us some- thing fresh in the way of plots. A young man reading for the Army is suddenly summoned by his sister to rescue her from......
Stories From The Pilgrim's Progress. Compiled By E. A. Mao-
donald. (S.S.U. is )—The language of Bunyan's allegory has not been changed, but various excisions have been made, notably of matter which would not interest the young. The task......
In The Dictator's Grip. By John Samson. (blackie And Son.
3s. 6d.)—South America is the scene of Mr. Samson's story, which is concerned with events of a century ago, and Dr. French]. istheDictator,though we do not get into the......
Among The Pond People. By Clara Dillingham Pierson. (j....
5s.)—The " Pond " is an American p md, and so are some of the " People " ; the turtle that snaps, and the turtle that does not snap, for instance, are strange to us. Others,......
Royalties Of The World. Portraits In Colour, With...
Rudolf de Cordova. (G. Newnes. 108. 6d.)—We may describe this as an illustrated " Almanach de Gotha." It does not contain the di minorum gentium, the mediatised houses and the......
God Save King Alfred. By The Rev. E. Gilliat. (macmillan
and Co. 6s.)--This is rather a story of Edward, King Alfred's eldest son, than of Alfred himself. Mr. Gilliat takes up the cause of Elfgiva, the mother of Athelstane, whose good......
Acton's Fe 2. By Frederick Swainson. (g. Newnes. 6 1 )
—At last some one has written for us a stirring school-story on the old heroic lines, with real boys in it, boys in whom we recoe- else the making of men. Acton is one of the......
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