Drifting Leaves. By Sarah Doudney. (marcus Ward And Co.)...
verse which Miss Doudney gives her readers in this volume • is very much above the average of merit of that which is commonly thought good enough to serve for the letterpress of......
Cassell's Family Magazine (cassell And Co.) Is As Varied In
its contents as usual. Of course there is fiction, but not in excessive quantity, and a large amount of other matter, useful and readable. In these days, when so many are......
The Children's Illustrated Annual (seeley And Co.) Is...
the really good art which it contains. The illustrations are described as being "after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sir T. Lawrence, Romney, and others, and are, in one......
The Fortune Of The Quittentuns. By R. D. Chetwode. (biggs
and Debenham.)—The idea of a buccaneer's treasure, which has to be discovered by means of a cryptograph, is one that has been used many times since Edgar Poe wrote his "Gold......
The Fireside, 1889. Conducted By The Rev. Charles...
(Home Words Office.)—Fiction is less prominent in this magazine than it is in some of its contemporaries ; nor is it, in our judgment, the worse for that. Miss Emily Holt......
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......
A Little Brown Pebble. By S. L. Pumphrey. (w H
Allen and Co.)—Some children find a brown pebble, and the brown pebble tells them his story, beginning with the account of how, being originally sandstone, he was hardened into......
The Black Man's Ghost. By John C. Hutcheson. (ward, Lock,
and Co.)—Captain Snaggs, a good sailor, but a brute liable to become dangerously savage when he is excited by drink, shoots Sam Ledfoot, the black cook. If there ever was a dead......
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