Four Red Night-caps. By C. J. Hyne. (eden, Remington, And
-Co.)—This is a story of a pleasure-trip taken in a small yacht of ten tons along the Western Coast of Scotland. A certain kind of humour is appropriated to this kind of......
What To Read : Sunday Readings In Prose. (religious Tract
Society.)—Mr. Frederick Langbridge has put together a number of extracts from well-known writers on religious subjects. John Fox, Jeremy Taylor, Southey, Dean Vaughan, and......
With The Current Number Of The Universal Review, We Regret
to see an announcement from the editor and proprietor stating that it is the last. The Review deserved a better fate ; but we have always understood that there are trade......
Cassell's Family Magazine. Illustrated. (cassell And...
not impossible, to differentiate the numerous maga- zines which compete for popular favour. To a certain extent utility is a prominent characteristic of the Family Magazine.......
The North Shore Watch, And Other Poems. By George Edward
Wood- berry. (Houghton and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Woodberry has an ear for music, but too frequently the music is not wholly his own, being caught from earlier composers. The......
Bob, The Spotted Terrier, With Fifty Illustrations By...
(Routledge and Sons), and Hero's Story, by Harriett Boultwood (P. Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh), may be classed together as stories of dog-life, told from the dog point of view.......
Another Brownie Book. By Palmer Cox. (t. Fisher Unwin.)— We
noticed, if our memory serves us, Mr. Cox's first " Brownie Book " last year. This volume has the same characteristics,—a quite surprising variety of quaint figures, full,......
Pioneers Of Electricity. By J. Munro. (religions Tract...
Munro goes far back for his beginning of electrical know- ledge. His first chapter is devoted to Thales. The fact, authentic or not, that Thales knew a piece of amber when......
Among New Editions And Reprints, We Have Early Lessons, And
The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth (G. Routledge and Sons). Who does not like to hear again of Rosamond and the Purple Jar, of Frank, of Harry and Lucy, and the......
My Prague Pig, And Other Stories For Children. By S.
Baring- Gould. (Skeffington and Son.)—These short stories have been reprinted from various periodicals to which the author has con- tributed them. " The Prague Pig" is an......
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