Amateur Work. Vol. I., New Series. (ward, Lock, And Co.)—
This "Practical Magazine of Constructive and Decorative Art and Manual Labour" has made, it will be seen, a fresh beginning. A description of the contents of a single number......
The Story Of A Poodle. By Lucy D. Thornton. (sampson
Low and Co.)—This story of Jose,' "told by himself and his mistress," gives an account of his family; of the great adventure of his life, when he became the property of a......
Little Footsteps. By Catherine Shaw. (j. F. Shaw.)—here...
three stories, two of children in the country, and one of children by the sea, all of them adorned with appropriate pictures. The stories are good enough, but we doubt whether......
A Modern Red Riding - Hood. By C. A. Jones. (hatchards.)—...
is a certain family resemblance between this story and "Little Lord Fauntleroy," so far, at least, as one of the principal characters is concerned. Rupert Howard is strikingly......
Annabel. By M. E. Burton. (griffith, Farran, And Co.) —
Annabel is taken away from the orphan asylum in which she has been brought up by an uncle who offers to maintain her. This uncle turns out to be a very curious creature, a......
The Conquest Of The Moon. By Andre Laurie. (sampson Low
and Co.)—This, as its title indicates, is a scientific extravaganza after the manner of M. Jules Verne. Science and commercial speculation combine to make an attempt upon the......
The Story Of A Queen. By Mary C. Rowsell. (blackie
and Son.) —The Queen whose story is told in this little volume is Marie of Brabant, second wife of Philip, son and successor of Louis IX. of France. It relates the crime of......
The Art Journal, 1889. (virtue And Co.)—the Editor Of The
Art Journal points with a legitimate satisfaction to the advance to be seen in the volume just given to the public over that of ten years ago. More letterpress, illustrations......
Holding On: A Tale For Boys. By J. T. Hopkins.
(Nelson and Sons.)—A good story this, with a moral well defined, but not obtruded. Wynt Havisham and his brother find themselves in a singular position by the sudden death of......
Her Own Way. By Frances Armstrong. (griffith, Farran, And...
step-mother of modern fiction is, for the most part, wholly unlike the well-known character with whom the ancient poets have made us familiar She is not "perfidious "and......
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