For Chums, A Story For Youngsters, By Rayleigh Severne...
and Ferran), we cannot say much. The book is too big for the very small things which it has to relate. With half the length, it would, if a wearied critic may judge on such a......
The Adventures Of A Three-guinea Watch. By Talbot Baines...
(Religious Tract Society.)—This story is reprinted from the Boys' Own Paper ; and, indeed, it well deserves a more extended life. The device of making a biographer of a watch, a......
With As Much Delight By The Old As By The
young. The present writer confesses to a preference for those stories of this author which tell of every-day life, rather than for her fairy stories. There is much beauty and......
The Fate Of Castle Lowengard. By Estee Stuart. (snttaby And
Co.)—Castle Lowengard is the abode of a German baron of the old type, the baron who took toll, and something more than toll, of pass- ing merchants, and trod down his peasants......
Among The Tiroblins. By Sydney Hodges....
come up to our ideal of a fairy story, it is a brisk and pleasant tale, which will doubtless please its readers. The hero of Mr. Hodges' firet . tale, "Among the Gibjigs,"......
In Friends, Though Divided (griffith And Farran), Mr. G. A.
Henty goes back to the Civil War for the incidents of his story. The friends, as may be readily imagined, are drawn by circumstances to take opposite sides. This is a situation......
Mrs. Temple's Grandchildren. By Evelyn Everett-green....
and her brother Marmaduke come home from India, to be put under their grandmother's charge, when Dolly is to perform the function of a peace-maker, for the grandmother is sorely......
Cissy's Troubles. By Dailey Dale. (nisbet And Co.)—cissy,...
of this simple little story, is all the more attractive because she is "not too bright and good, &c." On the contrary, she has a distinct spice of wilfulness. But then, she is......
Picked Up At Sea, And Other Stories. By J. C.
Hutcheson. (Blackie and Son.)—The first of these stories is a curious mixture of land and water. The scene changes from the sea to a mining camp in the States ; the Sioux appear......
The Madman And The Pirate. By R. M. Ballantyne. (nisbet
and Co.)—We cannot pretend to check Mr. Ballantyne's account of Pacific Wanders, missionaries, and pirates, who make up the dramafispersonca .of this tale. We can only say that......
Lily And Her Brothers. By "c. C. L." (griffith And
Farran.)— This is a simple chronicle, bearing every mark of being, what indeed it professes to be, a true chronicle of daily life. There is nothing especially eventful in "......
How It All Came Round. By L. T. Meade. (hodder
and Stoughton.)—It is always a pleasure to read one of Miss Meade's tales, but we must repeat a wish that we have, we think, expressed before, that she would consult......
An Edition Of Robinson Crusoe, By John Major (chatto And
Windas) comes recommended by illustrations of George Crnikshank's; and by "A Poet's Memories of Robinson Crnsoe," from the pen of Bernard Barton.......
Sir Valentine's Victory, And Other Stories. By Emma...
and Co.)—Sir Valentine finds himself dispossessed from his position as heir to his grandfather's estate and title by the sudden return of another grandson, supposed to have been......
Paddy Finn ; Or, The Adventures Of A Midshipman Afloat
and Ashore, is a reprint of one of Mr. W. H. I. Kingston's capital stories. (Griffith and Ferran.)......
Which The Great French Novelist Has Mingled Fact And Fancy
in a very happy fashion. We feel sure that the lad who makes his home among the wild birds on the Breton cliffs is a real person ; but he is skilfully idealised, and his story......
Poppies And Pansies. By Emma Marshall. (nisbet.)—"...
Pansies " represent two types of girls, which Miss Marshall describes with her wonted skill. Tbe story is slight, but well told. Now and then a touch of humour relieves its......
The Court And The Cottage. By Emma Marshall. (griffith And
Farran.)—This is a sad story,—sad at least in the ending, when the girl who has been so wilful at the first comes to her right mind. But we suppose that it will be useful as an......
Pilgrim Sorrow : A Cycle Of Tales. By Queen Elizabeth
of Roumania. Translated by Helen Zimmern. (T. Fisher Unwin.)— The Queen of Roumania has achieved some literary distinction, under the pseudonym of "Carmen Sylva." And, indeed,......
By Uphill Paths. By E. Van Sommer. (nelson And Sons.)—
This is a story of honest endeavour to do good, and teaches admirably that best of lessons,—that a man must not judge his work by the event, nor look to success as the test by......
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