By Bitter Experience. By Scott Graham. (s. W. Partridge....
is described as "A Story of the Evils of Gambling." It is not well, perhaps, for a writer to show his hand in this way. The metaphor is appropriate ; the moral should not be......
The Fiddle - String. By R. H. Bretherton. (wells Gardner,...
Co. 2s. 6d.)—We remember reading of a Princess, possibly from the Hesperides or Araby the Blest, whose finely cultivated sense of smell was sorely troubled when she came into a......
Beery Boy's Book Of Natural History. By Percival Westell....
3s. 6d.)—We scarcely need to do more than describe this volume if we would commend it to our readers. In the first place, it comes praised by Lord Avebury. Then the author has......
Young England. (57 Ludgate Hill. 58.)—this "magazine For...
to be well adapted to its purpose. The two chief items among its contents are "Day by Day in a Deep-water Ship" and a story of school life under the title of "Rivals and Chums."......
The Romance Of Precious Bibles. By The Rev. Sidney N.
Sedgwick. (Bagster and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Sedgwick takes us from the Samaritan Pentateuch to Tyndale's translation. There is a refreshing breadth about his views of things. He gives......
The Child's Christmas. Pictured By Charles Robinson. Text...
Sharp. (Blackie and Son. 6s. net.)—Here we have pencil and pen cleverly portraying for us the belongings and circumstances of Christmas. The pudding is stirred, the carol-......
Miss Lavender's Boy, And Other Sketches. By Amy Le Veuvre.
(R.T.S. 2s.)—These eight sketches are touched with the power and feeling which we are accustomed to find in Miss Le Feuvre's work. They are in various tones,—now the note is of......
Cassell's Saturday Journal. (cassell And Co. '75....
of useful and entertaining literature" gives a supply as varied and as copious as we have been for many years accus- tomed to find in it. The chief items are " Some Personal......
The Wolf - Mett. By Frank Powell. (cassell And Co. Ss. 6d.)
—This "Tale of Amazing Adventure in the Under World" ought to Satisfy the very strongest appetite for horrors. In such creatures as the great saurian, the spider as tall as a......
New Enrrions.—we Have Received From Messrs. Blackie And...
following new editions of stories all of which have at one time or other been noticed in these columns. These are Condemned as a Nihilist and Under Lord Wellington's Command,......
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