The Wild-catters. By C. S. Hyne. (sunday School Union.)— "
A Wild-Catter,," the author is good enough to explain, "is a prospector who goes to a new region and sinks a well on the off- chance of striking oil." This is what Mr. George......
When London Burned. By G. A. Henty. (blaokie And Sons.)—
London, in Mr. Henty's story, does not begin to burn till we reach p. 361, out of a total of 388. As the last chapter is devoted to a satisfactory winding up of the hero's......
The Patience Of Two. By The Rev. Augustus Buckland. (church
Monthly Office.)—Tbe "two" are a City clerk and the lady to whom he is engaged. He has a prodigal brother ; she has a somewhat helpless father. Still, between them, they......
Maurice And The Red Jar. By The Countess Of Jersey.
(Mao- millan.)—This story is a curious mixture of the real and the fanciful. The "Red Jar" which Maurice's parents keep with such religious care is somewhat like the "Luck of......
To Greenland And The Pole. By Gordon Stables. (blackie And
Sons.)—The story opens with the friendship struck up between a Norwegian boy and a Highland boy, and the visit of the Nor- wegian lad to the Scotch home in the winter, where he......
The Satellite. By The Hon. Eva Knatchbull-hugessen. (a....
four stories included in this volume are excellent in their way, "The Satellite" being, perhaps, the most amusing, and " Fraidein Schmidt" the most instructive. "The Satellite"......
Promises To Be Not Only A Handsome And Imposing Volume,
but an extremely popular and well-written series of books. Of the six volumes, two-and-a-half are to be devoted to mammals, an arrangement which nobody can quarrel with. The......
Vassia. By Mary C. Ropes. (sunday School Union.)—the...
whose "eventful journey" is here described, appeals against local oppression to the absent proprietor of the estate. To do this, he has a long way to traverse, and many perils......
Nantly Refused ; But Such Motives Do Not Suit A
story of this kind. Walter Gaydon. By F. Scarlett Potter. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—These adventures of an " Art Student "—has he illustrated, we wonder, his own book......
Claudius Bombarnac. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low,...
is more of the itinerary than the story in this book. Claudius Bombarnac, being at Tiflis, receives a telegram from his employers—he is special correspondent to the Twentieth......
Swallowed Up By An Earthquake. By E. D. Fawcett. (edward
Arnold.)—It requires a very peculiar power to make such extrava- gances as form the staple of Mr. Fawcett's tale attractive. The hero and his party are swallowed up by an......
Louie's Married Life. By Sarah Doudney. (s. W. Partridge And
Co.)—We must frankly say that we should not put this story into a young girl's hand. The most prominent feature in it is the wife's jealousy of her husband,—a jealousy which an......
The Adventures And Misadventures Of A Breton Boy. By Eugene
Mouton. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Joel Kerbabu is a Breton boy of some three hundred years ago. He comes of a family of sailors, and his destiny, though he seeks to avoid......
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