Partners. By H. F. Gethen. (t. Nelson And Sons.)—thin...
Story" is really excellent. Tom Johnson goes to school, and strikes up a friendship with a certain Stephen Smith, to whom, by reason of his red hair, he gives the name of Rufus.......
Christ In His Holy Land. By The Rev. Alexander A.
Boddy. (S.P.C.K.)—We have known Mr. Boddy for some time as an observant and intelligent traveller. He has now turned to an excellent use his gifts and abilities. This book......
Jack's Mate. By Noel West. (gardner, Darton, And Co.)— This
is a fresh and readable story of ranch life in one of the Western States. It relates the life of a cultivated family, of course, and not so much the actual cowboy life as the......
A History Of Lay Preaching In The Christian Church. By
John Telford. (Charles H. Kelly.)—This is one of the series entitled "Books for Bible Students." It is, as its title indicates, mainly historical, but the very fact of the wide......
Tom Tufton's Travels. By E. Everett-green. (nelson And...
we are sorry to say, gets mixed up with a celebrated highwayman, by name " Lord Claud." The story is laid in the time of the great war of the eighteenth century, and Tufton, who......
A Princess Of Islam. By I. W. Sherer. (swan Sonnenschein
and Co.)—This book, says the author, "was designed to be chiefly the study of a single female character." This one character is the niece of an Indian Nawab, whom her uncle, a......
Book Sales Of 1897. By Temple Scott. (g. Bell And
Sons. 150.) —Mr. Temple Scott summarises in an interesting introduction the chief events of the year in the market for old books, and draws certain conclusions. The public......
Under Love's Rule. By M. E. Braddon. (simpkin, Marshall, And
Co.)—The story is not constructed with any special skill, and is, so far, unequal to what we expect from Miss Braddon. But there is very good work in it. The general purpose......
The Paper Boat. By " Palinurus." (jsmea Bowden.)—we
must own to not quite understanding all the nautical manceuvres which " Palinurus " describes in the first of the six stories put together in this volume, "My First Big Race."......
The History Of The Universities' Mission To Central...
A. E. M. Anderson-Morshead. (Office of Mission, Dartmouth Street.)—The history begins with 1859, when Charles Frederick Mackenzie, then Archdeacon of Natal, was asked to take......
The Dacoit's Treasure. By H. C. Moore. (w. H. Addison
and Co.)—Two young Englishmen are made aware of a treasure in the neighbourhood of a certain pagoda in return for their kindness to a Burmese phongyee or priest. They travel up......
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