Indian Field Sports. (a. Constable And Co.)—here We Have...
on a smaller scale ten of the illustrations originally published in Captain Williamson's " Oriental Field Sports," a work which first appeared in 1807. The ten represent pig-......
Almost Too Familiar,—dynamite, Regicide, And Siberia....
a strong and well-constructed plot, it cannot be said to be commonplace. A son discovers that his father has, for some mysterious reason or other, been exiled to Siberia, and,......
A Life's Labour. By Emily Margaret Mason. (s. P. C.
K.)— This story is out of the beaten track of gift-books, there being a good deal more of pain and self-sacrifice than of pleasure in it. The author has a distinctly moral and......
The Cambridge Homer. Edited By Arthur Platt, M.a. (cam-...
University Press.)—This is a text, constructed on the principle of going back, as far as is reasonably possible, to the original language of Homer (not, however, it must be......
In The Queen's Navee. By Commander C. N. Robinson, R.n.,
and John Leyland. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)-1 story of adventure for boys, this book is notable for containing not too little but too much in the way of such adventure. The......
Her Saddest Blessing. By Jennie Chappell....
whole, a rather commonplace, though well-told and effective, story. At all events, we think we have heard before of some such blessing in disguise as that which befalls Olive......
Bread And Butter Stories. By Edith Carrington. (griffith,...
Co.)—The only fault to be found with these stories, which belong to the " fairy " order, is that they are too clever and too suggestive to be enjoyed by children,—the last being......
The Guinea Stamp. By Annie S. Swan. (oliphant, Anderson, And
Ferrier, Glasgow.)—This is a well-written and well-con- structed story, and has an excellent purpose. We question,however, whether it is quite suitable to the class of......
In And About Bohemia. By C. J. Wills. (griffith, Ferran,
and Co.)—These "forty-one short stories " have appeared, we are told, for the most part, in various newspapers. Mr. Wills has an object—apart from amusing his readers—that the......
The Naturalist On The Amazons. A Record Of Adventures,...
of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator during Eleven Years of Travel. By Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S., late Assistant-Secretary......
With The Admiral Of The Open Sea. By Charles Paul
Mackie. (Nelson.)—This is a new life of Columbus, and differs from the majority of the biographies that recent events have caused such a flood of, mainly in this, that it is......
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