Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. The Snow-Garden, and other Tales. By Elizabeth Wordsworth, (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Readers of Aunt Judy's Magazine will appreciate the spirit of these tales the......
A B C Is A Very Pretty Little Conceit In
the way of a pictorial alphabet for children, "written and pictured" by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin and published by Mr. Elkin Mathews. The verses are certainly simple enough. Their......
The Edge Of The World. By Annie Dawson. (the Unicorn
Press.)—The majority of these stories deal, as the title of the first indicates, with the debateable land between the seen and the unseen, and are full of a pleasant and......
The Village Of Youth. By Bessie Hutton. (hutchinson.)—the...
these six stories, "The Village of Youth," is a beautiful allegory to show us how vain it is to stay the passage of time, and that if we kept youthful how tired we should grow......
Ride In The Red Hood. By The Lady Laura Hampton.
Illustrated by Tom Noges Lewis. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—For children who revel in the doings of fairies, Bide in the Red Hood will pro- vide some most circumstantial adventures......
The English-speaking World Is A Handsome Volume Of Almost...
photographs reproducing the "scenery, cities, and indus- tries" of Great Britain and the dependencies on the one hand, and of the United States on the other, which has just been......
The Queen Arab Series. Illustrated By The Baroness Orczy And
Montagu Barstow. (Dean and Son.)—These are three pretty little fairy-stories, each in a separate volume, put together in an open case,—" Metka and the White Lizard,"......
The Drama Birthday Book. By Pery S. Phillips. (macqueen.)...
quotations affixed to the days in this birthday-boak are from the later dramatists of the nineteenth century, so that their prevailing note is either flippancy or cynicism. The......
Stories From The Bible. By Evelyn L. Farrar. (h. Henry
and Co.)—Miss Farrar has here retold the familiar stories of Jacob, King Saul, Elijah, John the Baptist, Peter, and Paul, in a style which, from its simplicity, is sure to be......
Dear Mr. Ghost. By Mrs. H. M. Clifford. (dean And
Son,)— This is a short, very prettily illustrated, well printed, and in every way delightful story of the good old Christmas kind, telling how a nice little girl who has been......
'paz' And Carlino. By Ernest Beckman. (fisher Unwin.)— ' Pax
' and Carlino certainly do go through some extraordinary adventur, s, and yet one cannot believe it to be but true, so naturally does one episode lead to another. We will not......
Obvious Analogies To Tales From The Same Source, And...
by other writers a few years ago, these fairy-tales are distinctly fresh in their present dress, and full of that noble and severe moral teaching we associate with the folk lore......
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