Other Tales For Children Are :—scarlet Anemones, By L. T.
Meade (Hodder and Stoughton), a story of English life in a chalet near the Pyrenees ; Slyboots, and other Farmyard Chronicles. By Beata Francis. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Birds......
True Tales Of Travel And Adventure, Valour And Virtue. By
James Macaulay, M.A., M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macaulay has collected here between forty and fifty stories, making a somewhat curious mixture. "The Siege of Jerusalem by......
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......
The Land Of The Pyramids. By J. Chesney. (cassell And
Co.)— This is a popular account of Egypt, ancient and modern. The sketch of Egyptian history seems to have been carefully studied (we may note that there is an error in what is......
The Autocrat Of The Nursery. By L. T. Meade. (hodder
and Stoughton.)—We cannot help thinking that that very respectable and sensible person, "nurse," was pretty nearly right when she gave it as her opinion that "there was......
The Girl's Own Annual. (the "leisure Hour" Office.)—here...
handsome volume of more than eight hundred pages, printed in three eolamns, and containing a vast amount of reading. Miss Rose Nonchette Carey contributes a serial story......
Little Snowflakes. Being The Christmas Number, For The...
the Sunday Magazine. (Isbister and Co., Limited).—Again we have to thank the editor of the Sunday Magazine for an excellent Christmas Number for children. Little 8nm:flakes......
Sunday Reading For The Young. (wells Gardner, Dorton, And...
title of this volume, which contains a year's issue of this magazine, sufficiently describes its object. Now and then we observe some slovenliness or inaccuracy, which an......
Herodotus For Boys And Girls. By John S. White, Ll.d.
(G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York).—We cannot say very much in praise of Dr. White's Herodotus. He gives too much ; some of the details which he retains in his selection being......
Who Is The Victor ? By C. M. C. Phipps.
(London Literary Society.)—This is a story of the Franco-Prussian war. It is not without interest ; but it would have been improved by being told in a simpler and less ambitious......
A Record Of Ellen Watson. Arranged And Edited By Anna
Buck- fitness for future work, must be a picture rather than a story ; and as she also says that material is wanting for rendering that picture artistic, we are not sere that......
Johnson : His Characteristics And Aphorisms. By James...
centenary of the death of Samuel Johnson is close upon us, and, in consequence, a number of works upon him of the nature of biography or of "study" have been published. Of......
Wind And Wave Fulfilling His Word. By Harriette E. Burch.
(Religious Tract Society.)—This is a story of the siege of Leyden, its title being suggested by the remarkable incident of the violent south-west wind which did so much for the......
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