Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. By J. M. Barrie. (hodder
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The Lilac Fairy Book. Edited By Andrew Lang. (longman And
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By Summer Seas And Flowery Fields. By T. Carreras. (s.
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Lamb's Adventures Of Ulysses. (t. Nelson And Sons....
a prettily got up book, and the frontispiece, " Nausicaa" (after Lord Leighton), is excellent. The other illustrations are of vary- ing merit. The title seems somewhat oddly......
Stories From Dante. By Sarah Cunnington. (george Harrap...
bs. net.)—It will be readily understood that " stories from Dante" are not of the same class of literature as stories from the classical poets and others. They are necessarily......
Of New Editions Of Favourite Gift-books We Have :-maori And
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Little Plays For Little People. Pictured By Millicent...
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The High Deeds Of Finn. By T. W. Rolleston. (george
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Mr. Pickwick Pages From The Pickwick Papers. With...
by Frank Reynolds. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)- Readers will probably be somewhat exacting when they see the well-known personages of the Pickwick Papers thus......
The Golden Legend. By H. W. Longfellow. With...
Sidney Meteyard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)-Mr. Meteyard's illustrations, thirty in number, while worthy on the whole of this very attractive subject-The Golden......
Messrs. Blackie Send Us New Editions Of Three Of George
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The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, By Daniel Defoe,
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The Flower Book. Written By Constance Armfield. Pictured...
Armfield. (Chatto and Winans. 7s. 6d.)-The flowers "confabulate," sometimes perhaps a little too sentimentally-one has to consider for whom these talks are meant-but still in a......
The Gateway To Tennyson. With An Introduction By Mrs. Andrew
Lang. (T. Nelson and Sons. 5s. net.)-Mrs. Andrew Lang's introduction is a brief biography into which the important things about the poet and his work have been introduced. What......
A Flower Anthology. Selected And Illustrated. By Alfred...
Lee Warner. 5s. net.)-Twelve flowers have been chosen, and for each various passages in prose and verse have been gathered. The choice of these is all that can be desired ;......
We Welcome New Editions Of Two Books By Juliana Horatio
Ewing, We and the World, Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse, and The Brownies, and other Tales, Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward. Both belong to the "Queen's Treasure" Series (G.......
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