Chums : An Illustrated Paper For Bogs. (cassell And...
is a comparatively new annual, dating from 1892, and considering its cheapness, well got up and well illustrated. There are some capital serial stories in it ; innumerable short......
Poictry.—songs. By William Renton. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—...
us plenty of sound, but scarcely enough sense. It is hardly fair, however, to judge a song without its music. There are "songs without words" which we all admire, but the words......
Young England. (sunday School Union.)—this "illustrated...
is good of its kind. There is plenty of fiction, but, considering the times, it does not occupy so dis- proportionate a space as one sometimes finds in publications of this......
Jim. By Ism'ay Thorn. (wells Gardner, Darton, And...
very good as far as incident and dialogue go, and the hero himself is a very fine character and most natural. The general current of school-life is well rendered and sustained......
Beneath The Surface. By Sarah Tytler. (sunday School...
is a simple story, without any particular moral, but not, perhaps, the worse for that. The title describes the character of "Ned," the elder brother, who conceals generosity,......
A Romance Of Skye. By Maggie Maclean. (oliphant,...
Ferrier.)—Our writer deals with a period ending in the "Forty- five," and her scene is laid in Skye and the mainland, and intro- duces the names of Macleod and Macdonald. There......
The Girl's Own Annual (66 Paternoster Row), Is, As It
is scarcely necessary to explain, the yearly volume of the Girl's Own Paper, which a high authority lately told us is "quite the best thing of its kind." To go so far as this......
The Gun - Runner. By Bertram Mitford. (chatto And...
of Zululand" would have been, we cannot but think, more effective if it had been compressed into smaller space. Some things, which it would have sufficed to indicate, are......
Miss Percival's Novel. By Nellie Hollis. (s.p.c.k.)—mies...
is, in other words, a benevolent effort at match- making. A very pretty girl, related to her family, Lynda Leigh by name, comes down to see her. Lynda is full of emancipation-......
Ferdinand De Lesseps. By G. Barnett Smith. (w. H. Allen
and Co.)—We cannot congratulate Mr. Barnett Smith on a successful book. He tells us nothing new, though he has collected with considerable diligence information that was open,......
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