Changed Lots. By Frances Armstrong. (griffith, Ferran,...
have been better to label this story a " romance ;" then we should not have tried it by any standard of actual life. The main idea is not unlike that made familiar by "The......
Little Miss Joy. By Emma Marshall. (shaw And Co.)—a Young
girl, grand-claughtar of an old man who reminds us of Captain Cuttle, does the work of a peacemaker in her neighbourhood. She is an interesting little person ; but we cannot say......
The Family Difficulty. By Sarah Dondney. (hutchinson And...
difficulty" is a niece who, brought up in the household of a clergyman from motives of kindness, does not fit nicely into her place. She is of a wholly different temper.......
The Young Governess. By The Author Of " Gerty And
May." (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—There are not a few carelessnesses in this "tale for girls." The "young governess" turns out to have "thirty years' experience of life." Thirty......
The Silver Mine. By Esme Stuart. (national Society.)—the...
this "underground story," as the alternative title has it, is laid on the Cornwall coast, and the principal characters are two boys and a girl. The father of two of them, one of......
Retrieving The Colours. By E. L. De Butts. (religious Tract
Society.)—Every one has a lesson, of course, to learn from the story of how an impetuous young private marries "off the strength," and subsequently, after several falls, manages......
A Knight Without Spurs. By Mrs. James Martin. (j. F.
Shaw.) —This is an unusually well-written book. Mrs. Martin knows her subject, and draws her characters with uncommon vigour. Her " knight," Ted Jarvis, is a genuine man, and......
Trated Some Verses Of His Own, About One Hundred And
forty in. number, with forty drawings. The verses are of a fanciful kind, with some sort of allegorical meaning in them,—perhaps, we may say, seeming oppositions in Nature......
Prairie And Bush. By George Dunderdale. (sampson Low And...
author of Prairie and Bash does not believe in plots, so he gives us his adventures in a rambling description of life in. a Lisbon College, life in a settlement in Illinois, and......
The Wire And The Wave. By J. Munro. (religious Tract
Society.) —This is sure to interest boys, and electrical students. The busi- ness of laying ocean-cables takes the cable-ship all over the world ; there is a great deal of the......
Under The Apple-tree. By C. H. Lyall. (j. F. Shaw
and Co.) — This is a story in which the old rhyme that apportions a different lot to the children born on each day of the week is ingeniously introduced. A pretty little tale it......
A Pinch Of Experience. By L. B. Walford. (methuen.)—mrs....
story is, as we should expect, clever enough, but there is not much in it, and it is certainly not agreeable reading. When we compare it with so charming a story as "A Sage of......
Roger Ingletort, Minor. By Talbot Baines Reed. (sampson...
Co.)—This is a curiously complicated story, not, we are inclined to think, in Mr. Reed's best style. Long-continued per- sonations are so difficult, and consequently so rare,......
Paul Blake. By Alfred Elwes. (griffith, Ferran, And Co.)—...
Blake is a boy who goes through some moderately exciting adventures in the Island of Corsica. We can hardly call the tale a good one, but the scene is laid in a country but......
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