Friends And Foes From Fairyland. By Lord Brabourne....
have an old complaint against Lord Brabourne in the choice of his subjects. He has a certain leaning—which we cannot praise—to the horrible. In former books he has introduced......
Arminius Varnbery : His Life And Adventures. Written By Him-
self. (T. Fisher Unwio.)—M. Vambery has written this story of his adventures expressly for young readers, and prefaces it with a chapter in which he commends it to them. It must......
An Address Made At The Special Service Of Commemoration And
Fellowship in. Manchester Cathedral at the Time of the Burial of the late Bight Rev. James Fraser, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, to which is added a Letter from the Dean to an......
For King And Queen ; Or, The Loyal 'prentice. By
Henry Frith. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Frith takes us back to the days of Queen Elizabeth and King James. His story opens with the abortive rising of Essex, and it takes us down as......
For Name And Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes. By G.
A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Henty encloses one of the military stories which he knows—and, indeed, has good reason for knowing—how to tell so well, in a frame which, in......
Afloat. By Mrs. Stanley Leathes. (j. F. Shaw And Co.)—this
is a story of a little girl who is sent adrift in a boat by the trick of an idiot, in revenge for a beating, by which her father had punished some mischievous proceedings on his......
The Postulates Of Political Economy. By The Late Walter...
With a Preface by Alfred Marshall. (Longmans.)—The experience of Professor Marshall as a lecturer on Political Economy at Cambridge has convinced him that the two remarkable......
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......
Yarns On The Beach. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And
Sons.)—These three "yarns" are good specimens of Mr. lienty's excellent faculty of story-telling. In the first we have a story of the French war, in which Mr. Henty boldly......
Al Soldier Born. By J. Percy Groves. (griffith, Farran, And
Co.) —This is a sufficiently good story of the usual military type. Cuth- bert Cumberbatch is the son of a retired officer whose own career has been unluckily cut short by an......
Famous Discoveries By Land And Sea. (blackie And...
have eight stories in chronological order, beginning with Christopher Columbus's discovery or rediscovery of America, and ending with a sketch of Mango Park's travels in Africa.......
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