England's Story For Children. By M. Baumer Williams....
Ba. 6d. net.)---This is a quite pretty and attractive book, and the little people ought to find both pleasure and profit in reading it. On the whole, they will take from it......
Children Of The Dawn : Old Tales Of Greece. By
Elsie Finne- ntore Buckley. With Introduction by Arthur Sidgwick. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 6s.)—Miss Buckley comes with the commendation expressed by laudari a laudato......
The Pageant Of British History. Described By J. Edward...
LL.D. With Illustrations from J. M. W. Turner, G. F. Watts, and others. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6s. net.)—This is a very handsome volume, giving with pen and pencil a succession of......
That Girl. By Ethel Turner. (t. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—miss...
puts the scene of her story in Australia, as is her custom. This time it is in a seaside suburb, and we read, not without an ill-natured satisfaction, that there, too, people......
The Goldsmith Of Chepe. By Tom Bevan. (r.t.s. 3s. 6d.)—
This a "Tale of the Plague Year." Elias Hodgson conies to seek his fortune in London, and at a most unlucky time. Not only are the "wells of charity dried up" by the prevailing......
In The Beginning : Told To The Children. By S.
B. Macy. (T. Seeley Clarke and Co. 6s. and 7s. 6d.)—This is the Bible story from the Creation down to the death of Joseph, told in the simplest language, for the teaching of......
Between Two Crusades. By Gertrude Hollis. (s.p.c.k. 2s....
"Story of 1187" we bear bow the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end. It is a subject which lends itself to picturesque narrative. With the great Saladin on the one side,......
The Life And Letters Of An Eminent Dog. By Muriel
D. C. Lucas. (R.T.S. is. 6d.)—This is interesting,—a book about dogs is bound to be that. If we have a fault to find, it is that it is really more about "humans" than dogs. It......
Stories Of The Irish Saints: Told For Children. By The
Rev. J. Sinclair Stevenson. (R.T.S. Is. net.)—Here we have told in appropriately simple language the story of St. Patrick of Columbkille, the "Dove of the Churches," of St.......
The Lost Will. By Elizabeth Ken. (s.p.c.k. Is. 6d.)—this Is
a quite readable story, though we find ourselves in a somewhat unfamiliar world. Matthew Reece, for instance, who would be equally at home in a prison and a lunatic asylum, does......
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