Messrs. G. P. Patnam's Sons Send Us Six Dainty Little
volumes, enclosed in a case of rough gilded cloth, which bear the title of Pearls, the volumes themselves being of a delicate sky-blue colour. They contain seleotions of poetry......
Gold Hanger Woods. By M. And C. Lee. (national Society.)—
This "child's romance" is ingeniously planned and well executed. Susan Arbuthnot and her brothers and sisters are sent into the country to undergo the experiment of inoculation,......
Among The Crowds Of New Tales Appears The Sixth Edition
of an old favourite, At the South Pole, by William H. G. Kingston (Cassell and Co.), embodying, we may remind our readers, the true adventures of "Richard Pengelley, Mariner."......
Chip; From The Earth's Crust. By John Gibson. (nelson And
Sons.)—Mr. Gibson has collected in this volume a number of essays —there are twenty-eight in all—contributed during some years past to the Sco'sman. He explains in the preface......
Current Literature.
GIFT BOOKS, Exc. Jack and the Beanstalk. English Hexameters by Hallam Tennyson. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Hallam Tennyson's hexameters are very......
The Lay Of The Last Minstrel. By Sir Walter Scott.
(Chatto and Windas.)—This is one of the best illustrated books of the year, taking the word "illustration" in its strict sense. The drawings do help the reader to understand and......
Bewick Gleanings. Edited, With Notes, By Julia Boyd....
handsome volume, published both in large-paper and small-paper copies, contains what the editor calls the "gleanings," or " aftermath," of the Bewick workshop. The" Memorial......
Wilful Winnie. By Annie S. Swan. (nelson And Sons.)—a Well-
told little story this, of how a wilful little girl was made by the dis- cipline of experience, enforced by kindness and firmness in those about her, to learn the lessons of......
Boy's Own Stories. By Ascott R. Hope. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—mr.
Ascott Hope's stories deserve the appreciation from "more thoughtful youngsters" which, while modestly disclaiming competition with sen- sational fiction, he asks for them. His......
When We Were Girls Together. By Sarah Doudney. (hodder And
Stoughton).—Jennet Fowler is sent to a " finishing " school by a rich aunt ; and ultimately, after sundry experiences in her new life, comes in for the rich aunt's money. The......
Thrilling Tales Of Enterprise, Heroism, And Adventure. By...
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macaulay follows up his volume of last year, "Stirring Stories of Peace and War," by another of very similar character. We are still of opinion that......
Two German Art Gift Books.*
THERE is a certain kind of German art which, we must confess, has little attraction for us, though it is in its way capable, and, we must suppose, from its prevalence in its......
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