Lad Whose Somewhat Self-willed, Selfish Temper Is Tuned...

disci- pline of trouble, and by the influence of the love and of the good examples of those about him.......

Her Husband's Home. By Evelyn Everett-green. (j. F....

Durley, the young wife of a soldier ordered on active service, comes, with her boy of four years old, to live with her husband's mother and elder brother. The mother is......

The Ogre : A Story For Young Children. By May

Cumaington. (Wu.= Ward.)—The " ogre " of this story is not the horrible creature which the realistic Lord Brabonrne delights to draw, bat a kind-hearted Scotch teacher of music,......

Halcyon And Asphodel, And Other Stories. By A. H. A.

(Hatcharde.) These are a fairly successful attempt at a very difficult kind of writing,—the fairy story. They are not quite free from the besetting sin of the modern variety,......

Laura Graham And New Honours Are Two Little Tales, Both

by C. Selby Lowndes, and illustrated by Edith Scannell. (Warne and Co.) —They have for their subject the small troubles and trials of domestic life, as they occur to the young.......

The Champion Of Odin. By Frederic Hodgetts. (cassell And...

The "Champion of Odin" is one Hahkon, a Swede, who, from being a shepherd boy (though, indeed, he is of princely birth), rises to be a leader of warriors. He comes over with the......

Odile : A Tale Of The Commune. By Mrs. Frank

Pentrill. H. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—This is a prettily told story, Odile being a charming figure of the best French type ; but why call it "A Tale of the Commune " ? It is true......

Expended Much Trouble, And With No Small Success In The

result. Violet Berkeley, with her pliant will, which has been too much bent to a not altogether desirable model ; the impulsive Una, with her energy and courage ; the......

One Day At A Time. By Blanche E. M. Greve.

(R.T.S.)—This also is another tale of a religions life, too pronounced to our taste, particularly at the commencement, but in all other respects of very superior texture and......

The Lion. Battalion, And Other Stories. By M. E. Hellah.

(Hat- chards.)—We have been more charmed with these stories than we feel able easily to express. Perhaps the first, from the literary point of view, is the best. Little Peter......

Among The Carbonari. By Grace Stabbing. (hatchards.)—here...

exciting little narrative. Peyton Phelps goes out to Italy on some business for his uncle. The dishonest practices of a steward who has been looking after an Italian estate, and......

The Fate Of The' Black Swan.' By F. Frankfort Moore.

(S.P.C.K.) —Mr. Moore has no small claims to have, if not a chief, at all events a good, place among the tellers of sea-stories. It is true that his space is more than half......

Her Gentle Deeds. By Sarah Tytler. (isbister.)—kirten...

of this story, is left with the charge of three helpless and penniless children. They had been committed to her charge by their father, who pretends that he has provided means......

Folk And Fairy Tales. By Mrs. Barton Harrison. (ward And

Downey.)—A number of curios and articles of vertu in a New York drawing-room tell their various stories to a little boy, and thereby amuse him, and, we should believe and hope,......

Worth The Winning. By Emma E. Hornibrook. (shaw And Co.)

—This is a tale of the distinctly religious order, the "denomination" chiefly Quaker, but not of the illiberal class. About as many per- sonages are introduced as there are......

Five Minutes Too Late ; Or, Leslie Harcourt's Resolve. By

Emily Brodie. (Shaw and Co.)—This is doubtless intended to be a boy's book; we are sorry that we cannot congratulate the lady author on her success. We are afraid that any boy......

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Stories On The Collects. By C. A. Jones. Vol. I.—advent

to Easter. (J. S. Virtue.)—It is no easy task that the writer has set before herself. Stories so directly didactic are difficult things to manage, the hard thing being to give......