The Story Of Liu,a. By Edwin Lester Arnold. (lonp. ,...
Co.)—Most of these ten stories have appeared in periodicals, but we are pleased to see them collected together. "The Story of Ulla " is perhaps the best, and something of the......
Ten Talents. By Helen Shipton. (s.p.c.k.)—alan Hatton,...
a tradesman, does much good work in a Yorkshire parish, when the news of his father's succession to a fortune at once lifts him and his family above the necessity of work. Alan,......
The Rubies Of Rainier, By Mrs. Egerton Eastwick (george...
Limited), is a by-no-means bad specimen of the Orientalised melodramatic fiction for which there seems to be a great demand in these days. The central figure of the story is a......
Li Hung - Chang. By Professor R. K. Douglas. (bliss,...
Foster.) - The recent war between China and Japan, and the still more recent massacres of missionaries, give a special opportuneness to this new volume of the international......
The First Volume In The Very Elegant "nautilus Series" Being
offered to the public by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Bowden, is The Story of a Baby, by Ethel Turner. It is Australian, add looks very American in its humour and general lightness......
Master Val. By Nellie Hellis. (s.p.c.k.)—val Is A Spoilt And
disobedient boy, but the acquaintance of a hard-working boy of his own age, the son of poor parents, sets him a better example, and he becomes a credit to his station and his......
Popular History Of Animals. By Henry Scherren. (cassell...
is decidedly well got up, and the coloured plates excellent, though the species are of necessity somewhat reduced owing to there being as many as twenty on a plate. The text-......
Life's Blindfold Game. By Maggie Swan. (oliphant, Ander-...
Co.)—If this is a Christmas book, it is meant for older children, about the ages of seventeen and twenty-one inclusive. The plot is a regular novel-plot,—there is the earnest......
Dorothy Saddington. By The Author Of "the Nausicaa."...
Son.)—The author of this story says that a portion of it was suggested by a German work, and perhaps the difficulty of giving this suggestion in an English setting accounts to......
Lighthouses : Their History And Rcmvince. By W. J. Hardy.
(R.T.S.)—Mr. Hardy has brought much interesting research into -old documents, such as petitions and charters for lighthouses, to bear on his subject. We most of us have heard of......
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