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Corners Of Grey Old Gardens. (t. N. Foulis. Ss. 6d.

net.)— The sentimental title of this small book is indicative of its prettiness : but there is not much grey in Miss Waterfleld's illustrations. The letterpress consists of......

Fiction.

"GOOD OLD ANNA." * Mn. BELLOO-LOWNDES'S new story is a novel of the war, but it falls into the same category as Mr. Bradby's "For This She Had Borne Him," noticed recently in......

The Book Of Sundials And Their Mottoes. (t. N. Foulis.

Se. 6d. net.)—" True as a dial to the sun " is a Saying as old as Hudibras. Nowadays sundials are not set up as emblems of honesty or to do the service of clocks, but as......

The Orient Pearls. By Shovona Devi. (macmillan And Co. 2s.

6c1. net.)—This is a collection of fairy-stories, fables, and folk-.ore which may take a good place among the numerous books of this kind that now come to us from India. If the......

Home-made Toys For Girls And Boys. By A. N. Hal

(T. Werner Laurie Os. net.)—This is for young people who want - to use their fingers to some purpose. It teaches how to make out of paper and cardboard various toys or......

New Enrrrons.—among New Editions Suitable For Boys'...

Treasure Island and The Black Arrow (Cassell and Co., 3s. 6d. each). They are illustrated in colour and bound in a garish manner that may attract boys as effectually as it......

The Village Church. By The Rev. P. H. Ditohfield. (methuen

and Co. bs. net.)—Mr. Ditchfield is not a deep writer upon his subject, but a very pleasant and discursive one. His is just the kind of book that will open the eyes of a blind......

Fairy Tales That Mother Told. (t. Nelson And Sons. 2s.)

—An anonymous compiler gives us here fifteen quite well- chosen fairy-stories, including some old friends from Grimm and some less-known tales of French origin. Their manner is......

The Rebel Lady. By John Barnett. (nisbet And Co. 6s.)—,

Mr. Barnett, within the limits of fiction, ranges over a wide field of subjects. He has written, and we have read, an admirable school story, a moderately interesting modern......

Readable Novels.—the Queen's Net. By Harold Begbie...

6s.)—Theso tales of some women who have been helped by the Queen's Work for Women Fund do not claim to be typical ; they are genuine, original, and treated, for the most part,......