19 NOVEMBER 1904, page 7

This Is The Last Of What The Publishers Rightly Describe

as Mr. Henty's "great series of historical stories for boys." Year after year for many years we have had the pleasant task of noticing them,—sometimes there have been three or......

Tam Is One Of The Books Which It Seems So

easy but is really so difficult to write as they should be written. Shipwrecks and battles and fights with savages and searches for buried treasure have to be taken for granted......

The Brown Fairy Book. Edited By Andrew Lang. (longmans And

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Lang has to go far afield when he wishes to add a new volume to his many-coloured library of fairy-stories. But he does not go in vain. Fortunately for him,......

The Right O' The Lsne. By R. Power Berrey. (nisbet

and Co. Ss. 6d.)—When the Greeks were being marshalled before the battle of Plataea the Athenians and Tegeans disputed who should be placed on the wing which the Spartans, to......