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The Romance Of Early Exploration. By Archibald Williams....

Co. 5s.)—A young reader who acquires anything like a mastery of this book will have learnt a quite creditable amount of history and geography. Mr. Williams begins with an......

The Empire's Children. By John Finnemore. (w. And R....

2s. 6d.)—These seven short stories sketching the life of children in the great Colonies and India will delight young readers, for they are well told, the local colour is good,......

The Boys Of Brierley Grange. By Fred. Whishaw. (w. And

R. Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—A good story of school life is about as hard a thing to write as can be imagined, and Mr. Whishaw, clever tale-writer as he is, has not made a great......

The Sunday At Home. (r.t.s. 7s. 6d.)—this Yearly Volume Is

even unusually full of good things. A story by Mr. Crockett, to begin with, is no small attraction ; Miss Amy Le Feuvre contri- butes another story; and the miscellaneous......

Two Indian Stories.*

BOTH of these stories are written, so to speak, by experts. Mr. Strang and Mr. Macmillan both know India at first hand, and not from books only. We do not wish to depreciate the......

Foray And Fight,' By John Finnemore (w. And R. Chambers,

3s. 6d.), is "the story of the remarkable adventures of an English- man and an American in Macedonia." Young people, happily for themselves, can relish stronger fare than suits......

A Sailor's Garland. Selected And Edited By John...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Though this volume hardly comes into the class of "gift-books," yet we gladly take this occasion of mentioning it as distinctly qualified for a book which......

Survivors' Tales Of Great Events. By Walter Wood....

Co. 3s. 6d.)—" Each of these stories," writes Mr. Wood in his preface, "is based on one or more personal interviews with the survivor of the event described. Colonel T. A.......