We Have Received The Yearly Volume' Of Sunday Reading For
the Young (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 58. cloth, 3s. paper). It is, as usual, well and plentifully illustrated—the names of Gordon Browne, W. H. C. Crroome, and Helen Miles......
The Parson's Daughter. By Emma Marshall. (seeley And Co....
story was left unfinished at Mrs. Marshall's death, and has been completed by her daughter, a task that has been well done. The tale is constructed, so to speak, round some of......
John Ames, Native Commissioner. By Bertram Milford. (f....
and Co. 3s. 6d.) —This is a story of the " Matabele Rising," full of incident vigorously described, and not a little lurid in colour, a characteristic which will not be......
The Arabian Nights Entertainments. (george Newnes. 15s.)—...
very handsome edition of the Arabian Nights, and copiously illustrated by W. H. Robinson, Hells Stratton, A. D. McCormick, A. L. Davis, and A. E, Norbury. These artists have......
The Wonder - Workers. By A. O'd. Bartholeyns. (hurst And...
is a pretty book, containing legends of the flowers which have, as so many have, sacred associations, and of kindred subjects. The stories are told to little Pansy in the church......
We Have Yet Another Fifty - Two Stories, Edited By Alfred H.
Miles (Hutchinson and Co., 5s.), stories this time "of the wide, wide world," not materially different, it is true, from its prede- cessors, for it consists of tales of......
Afloat With Nelson. By Charles H. Eden. (john Macqueen....
date upon the title-page of this book is 1897; and it may, therefore, be a reprint or a new edition. In any case it is a very spirited story, which recalls Nelson, Copenhagen,......
Two Boys Tn Wyoming. By Edward S. Ellis. (cassell And
Co. 2s. 6d.)—Jack Dudley and Fred Greenwood, two spirited young American schoolboys, spend their holiday at a ranch in Wyoming. There they have various adventures, fall in with......
For The Old Flag, By C. R. Fenn (sampson Low,
Moreton, and Co., 5s.), is a story of the Mutiny. The hero, who is under orders to go to England, as being too young to take part in the affairs of the time, makes a little......
Fairy Tales From Hans Christian Andersen. Translated By...
Lucas, and illustrated by Thomas, Charles, and William Robinson. (Dent and Co. 5s.)—This translation is well written, and there is a freedom and a quaintness about Mrs. Lucas's......
Wynport College. By Frederick Harrison. (blackie And Son....
of school life" is satisfactory on the whole, though one does not know exactly with what kind of schools " Wynport College" must be classed. Both masters and boys are a little......
Mobsley's Mohicans. By Harold Avery. (nelson And Sons....
—This is one of the most enjoyable school stories that have been published for many a day. Hanover House Academy "was not an educational establishment that had made a name in......
The Heir Of Hascombe Hall. By Evelyn Everett - Green....
Sons. 5s.)—The chief fault to be found with this book is that it is too long drawn out, and that many of the incidents have the character of padding. As the title, indeed,......
The Courteous Knight, And Other Tales. (nelson And Sons. 35.
(Id.) —Mr. G. Edwardson, who edits this very handsome and interesting gift-book, admits most frankly his indebtedness to Spenser and Sir Thomas Malory. Thus certain books of the......
A Vanished Nation. By Herbert Hayens. (nelson And Sons....
ie a praiseworthy attempt to reproduce Paraguay,— the Paraguay that Dr. Francis, too much beloved of Carlyle, governed wisely but too well to allow of a dictator being chosen......
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