Beasts And Birds. By C. Von Wyss. (a. And C.
Black. 18.6d.) -The author begins by describing the "animal visitors in our garden," such as worms -and insects, and goes on with familiar English creatures, both tame and wild,......
The Bay's Book Of Airships. By Harry Delacombe. (grant...
6s.)—Mr. Delacombe, who has been assisted by DU. E. J. Partridge, divides his book into three parts. In the first he treats of balloons ; in the second of airships which are......
The Mysterious Twins. By Brenda Girvin. (cassell And Co. 3s.
6d.)-This is certainly, an amusing story, but surely a little farcical. However, the resemblance of twins and the strange vonseiauenees that come from it have supplied a plot......
Mr. Torrocks' Lectors. Illustrated In Co/our By G....
(Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)-The Lectors (representing "Lectures" in ordinary speech) are extracted from the "Handley Cross" of R. S. Surtees (1802-1864). The book......
The Magic City, By E. Nesbit (macmillan And Co., 6s.)
; and More about Jock, by E. K. Crawford (J. MaeLehose and Sons, 3s. 6d. net), are both stories hi which the children's real lives are diversified by thrilling dreams,......
Teddy And Trots In Wonderland, By Agnes Grozier...
Lock, and Co., 3s. 6c1.), is a republication from the "Wonder Book." Such titles of the chapters as "The Blue China Country" and "The Land of the Brown Mugs" will show the genus......
A Lady Of Mettle. By Dorothea Moore. (s. W. Partridge
and 5s.)-We do not remember to have seen the Duke of ;41-loncester in fiction before,-we mean the sickly lad who was the only child of the Princess Anne that gave any promise of......
Two Boys In The Tropics. By Elise Haldeman Figyelmessy....
and Co. 6s. net.)-Two boys from Pennsylvania are taken by their parents to Equatorial South America, and see, as might be expected, not a few things to astonish them, a puma......
The Life Of Queen Victoria. By Alice Corkran. (t. C.
and E. C. Jack. is. 6d. net.)-The boys and girls who read this will get a definite impression of the greet Queen and her times. It is well written, and though parts of it are......
The Little King. By C. Major. (macmillan And Co. 6s.)-mr.
Major has given us a vivid picture of the childhood of Louis XIV. The descriptive passages are chiefly in a good English style, but the dialogue is an almost literal translation......
Children Of Jamaica, By I. C. Maclean I And Children
of Japan, by J. H. Harvey Kelman. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 18.6d. net each.)-These are two excellent little books, written from the point of view of a missionary. The......
Overdue. By Harry Collingwood. (blackie And Son. 3s. 6d.)...
did the emigrant ship Mercury' come to be overdue? First her captain and two mates met with fatal accidents, and then a Socialist passenger persuaded his fellows to join him,......
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