By Stating That "the Subject Of Witchcraft Has Been Little
dwelt on by people writing for the young. Yet in all the wide domain of history there is no more terrible record." We think this terrible record has very properly deterred......
In 300 Pages, The Story Of The Crusades, From Their
commencement to the termination of the eighth and last one. "It has been told," as the author says in his preface, "with as much lightness and as much adventurous detail as is......
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GIFT BOOKS. Behind the Cloud, and other Lessons from Life in which the "Natural" is used to illustrate the "Spiritual." By "E. C.," Author of "Lord, I hear of Showers of......
Mr. Albert Dicey On The Constitution.* Original,...
and interesting are strong epithets to apply to a legal work,but they are eminently applicable to Mr. Dicey's book. What Professor Freeman has done for the history, and Mr.......
Through The Fray : A Tale Of The Luddite Riots.
By G. A. Beaty. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Rents-, as would be expected, will not -dis- appoint by this tale hid . " dear lade," to whom he presents it in his preface ; he is an old......
Has Been To Try To Bring Before Children, Clothed In
simple language, the old story so beautifully narrated by Spenser ;" and she has accomplished the task successfully, within the very moderate Com- pass of 140 short pages, which......
My Back-yard Zoo. By The Rev. J. G. Wood. (iabister.)—mr.
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"us Three," By "e. A. B. D." (shaw And Co.),
is a simple tale of very humble life, which will probably be beat appreciated by reading of a similar class. Several of the inoidents are interesting and skil- fully handled. A......
Jesse Dearloue, By Emile Stuart (s F.o.b.), Is The Story
of a young village poet who goes up to town to seek his fortune, but finds his happiness in the village which it would have been better for him never to have left.......
Sons.)—the Book Begins With "an Eventful Drive," From...
the main complication of the story, to be shortly afterwards combined with another, "On the Ice." The moral of the tale is developed wholesomely and naturally out of incidents......
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