Under Puritan Rule. By Agnes Giberne. (national Society....
first chapter introduces us tcrthe familiar complica- tion. Gilbert Ilumphry, a London merchant who has somewhat unexpectedly come into possession of the Steeplewest Estate, is......
Clarinda's Quest. By Ethel F. Heddle. (mackie And Son....
story opens with a painter's pupil-room in Paris, where we are introduced to a Clarinda who has a very high opinion ol herself. The scene changes. Clarinda and her sister Betty......
The Boy's Book Of The Sea. By W. H. Simmonds.
(S. W. Partridge and Co. 3o. 6d.)—Mr. Simmonds begins with some "wonders of the deep," pearls, cuttlefish, the sea-serpent,--he is prudently neutral about this creature, who,......
Clever And Musing, With That Aptness Of Phrase, Readiness...
decision of character we associate with our little Cousins across the water. The story °pent with some most entertaining fooling which keeps the reader and the respective......
Betty Vivian. By L. T. Meade. (w. And R. Chambers.
5s.)— One cannot help thinking the incident around which Betty's trials at wheel centre a somewhat email and uninteresting peg on which to hang the whole story. Moreover, the......
Christabel In France. By Mrs. Albert G. Latham. (blackie And
Son. 35. 6d.)--Christabel is an old friend, and we are glad to meet her again. This time she and her little brother and sister are transported to France, not without the......
Peeps At Many Lands China. By Lena E. Johnston. (a.
and C, Black. is. 6d.)—This is a delightful book, quite worthy of the excellent series to which it belongs. If it is true that the waking of China "will be like the waking of......
The C'hildren's Story Of Westminster Abbey. By G. E....
(Mills and Boon. 5s. net.)—This does not claim to be a guide to the Abbey,—it would be wasteful to get up a guide in this style. It gives an outline of English history as it is......
Pomegranate: The Story Of A Chinese Schoolgirl. By Jennie...
B.A. (Morgan and Scott. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a picture of Chinese life, minute and faithful as a photograph,—a photograph, too, from which the lines of Nature have not been......
A Fair Haven, And Other Stories. By Mary H. Debenham.
(National Society. 2s. 6d.)—With these thirteen stories Miss Debenham completes the tale of fifty-two which, as she tells us, she undertook to write for Sunday evening reading.......
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