N Or M. By The Author Of "honor Bright." (wells
Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The beginning of this story is quite charming. Molly and Nora, who will take to themselves the initials of the catechism ("neaten or nomina " they......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. St. George for England. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)— Cressy, Poictiers, Slays, the Black Death, the Jacquerie, with such great personages as the Black Prince,......
Seven Sons : The Story Of Malcolm And His Brothers.
By Darley Dale. (James Nisbet and Co.)—The seven sons are the children of a clergyman, who has resigned his living from ill-health, and lives at Avranches. Only two of them play......
"there's A Friend For Little Children." By Jessie F....
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here is another temperance tale. Lucy, the little heroine, is much hurt by her father when he comes home in a semi-intoxicated condition. Sent to regain......
The Society For Promoting Christian Knowlege Sends Us, As...
a number of volumes of various sizes, some of which have already been noticed. We have now to mention :—Three Sixteenth-Century Characters. By Sarah Brook.—The " three " are......
Stanley Grahame. By Gordon Stables, M.d. (hodder And...
Dr. Stables's accessories stagger us a little. What were smugglers doing on an inland moor in Aberdeenshire, except it were to make our blood curdle when the hero is hiding with......
Mr. Swwburne's New Volume.*
THE poem from which this volume takes its name is an effort at descriptive poetry more ambitious and laborious than any- thing that we remember to have seen before from Mr.......
Qu.eensford. By Bruce Edwards. (scottish Temperance...
weighted by its having a purpose ; but Miss Edwards (or should we say Mr. ?) contrives to bear the burden with much facility. There is some real humour in the book ; and the......
Old Highways In China. By Isabelle Williamson. (religious...
Williamson has been engaged for many years in missionary work in China. This volume contains some of her more recent experiences, not so much of mission.work as of travel, but......
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