St. Helen's Weil. By Mary H. Debenham. (national...
is a story of Jacobite times. The heroine's father is an English adherent of the Young Pretender, and has to fly for his life. She lives for some years in an out-of-the-way......
The Reformation In Prance. By Richard Heath. Part Ii....
Tract Society.)—In this volume Mr. Heath relates the history of the Reform movement from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) down to the incorporation of the Protestant......
Ready, Aye Ready. By Agnes Giberne. (j. Nisbet And Co.)—
This time Miss Giberne has given us a plot of the very slightest description, a decided mistake. The characters to conceal such a defect must, to say the least, have a certain......
Adam Dickson. By Thomas Mason. (d. Bryce And Son,...
are in this book some very charming touches of Scotch character and manners among the middle class which form such a striking element in an old country town. Adam Dickson's......
The Happiest Half - Hour. By Frederick Langbridge, M.a....
"Sunday Talks with the Children" consist of twenty-four chapters. In each there is a paper in which some subject is dealt with as Mr. Langbridge knows how to deal with subjects,......
When I Was A Boy In China. By Yea Phou
Lee. (Blackie and Son.)—There are certain of the Christmas gift-books which, though written for young people, are perhaps of even greater interest to their elders. Mr. Lee's......
Getting On. By Mrs. Newman. (s.p.c.k.)—the Moral Con-...
this little story is,—If you have a healthy and congenial employment, do not forsake it for one more remunerative but less sure. The moral in point is conveyed by the adventures......
Hazel Haldene. By Eliza Kerr. (wesleyan Methodist S.s.u.)...
a pretty though somewhat commonplace little story. An unfortunate lady, who has married against the wishes of a brother and sister, is left destitute by the untimely death of......
Her Life's Work. By Lady Dunboyne. (nisbet And Co.)—this Is
a pathetic tale, the story of what a good woman may do in a very brief span of life. Not the least part of what Phyllis Hope effects is the turning to righteousness of Raymond......
Louisa Of Prussia, And Other Sketches. By The Rev. John
Kelly. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Kelly his devoted his volume to sketches of ladies connected with the Hohenzollern family. Only one of them, the Princess Charles of Hesse......
Hugh Herbert's Inheritance. By Caroline Austen. (blackie...
new tale is not of a very original kind. The hard-hearted half-brothers who fraudulently deprive their sister of her property, and thus throw her and her family into unexpected......
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