The Oliver Children. By Mary Davison. Illustrated By F....
(S.P.C.K.)—A pretty book with three pretty illustrations, written for children, who, we doubt not, will find themselves much interested in the story ; it is told very cheerily......
Amateur Work. Edited By The Author Of "every Man His
Own Mechanic." Vol. IV. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—Here a man may learn, if only Nature has given him hands (by which we mean some- thing more than extremities furnished with ten......
Messrs. Routledge Have Sent Us Their Yearly Volumes...
Boy's Annual, edited by Edmund Rontledge, and Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, edited by Miss Alicia Leith, each of them ex- cellent in its way, and happily adapted for its......
Current Literature.
GIFT BOOKS. The King's Service : a Story of the Thirty Years' War, by the Author of " The Spanish Brothers," &c. (R.T.S.), is an interesting and well-constructed story centering......
Two Companion Volumes—good Words, Edited By Donald...
the Sunday Magazine, edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh (Isbister and Co.)—may be mentioned together. Both are so well known, that mention is really all that they need. Good......
A Somewhat Similar Magazine, But Intended, We Should Say,...
older children, is Our Darlings. Edited by Dr. Bernardo. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—It has a special reference to the good work with which the editor has identified his name. With its......
Who Was Philip? A Tale Of Public School-life, By Rev.
H. C. Adams, M.A., with eight illustrations (Griffith, Farran, and Co.), is another boys' book, not likely to attract so many readers, either from the interest attaching to the......
Cassell's Saturday Magazine (cassell And Co.) Presents...
volume in a handsome volume of more than eight hundred quarto (or are they " elephantine " octavo ?) pages. It contains seven serial stories, most of them begun and finished in......
Young Days Of Authors. By Ascott R. Hope. With...
(J. Hogg.)—" The stories," as stated in the Preface, "are founded upon autobiographical materials, supplied by the heroes themselves, with here and there a passage quoted or......
From The Tan-yard To The White House : The Story
of President Grant's Life. By William M. Thayer. With Portrait. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The author is already favourably known as the writer of the Lives of Abraham Lincoln and......
Broken Hearts Are Still. By Phcebe Allen. (s.p.c.k.)—the...
an appropriate one for this very melancholy story, said to be one ",of a real life." The "stillness" is that of Christian resignation, the lesson of the tale. Beyond a short......
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