Through Storm And Stress. By J. S. Fletcher. (w. And
R. Chambers.)—In this tale is embodied the story of John Fox, who made such a remarkable prison delivery, in the year 1577, from the then pirate city of Alexandria. The story is......
Uncle Towser. By The Rev. A. N. Malan. (religious Tract
Society.)—There is some very good fun in Uncle Towser, and Mr. Malan knows schoolboy life too well not to make some capital hits. Jemmy Browser and Lurcher, the overgrown......
Max, Fritz, And Hob. By C. R. Coleridge. (national...
We can hardly imagine a story that will give children greater pleasure than this, dated as it is from the Tudor period, though the scene is laid in the Bavarian Highlands......
Boxley Parish. By J. Cave-browne, M.a. (dickinson, Maid-...
a parish of nearly six thousand acres, near Maidstone, and Mr. Cave-Browne finds plenty of material in its history. It contains the famous Penenden Heath. Here Arch- bishop......
The Queen Of The Goblins. By W. Pickering. (gardner And
Cu) —The description of Goblindom is quaint and striking, and so, too, is the account of the flight of the Queen to the Fairy Court; but towards the end the tale seems to get......
Not One Of Us. By The Author Of The "atelier
du Lys." (National Society.)—The scene of this charming picture of Alpine life is laid in Northern Italy, a gentler background with a warmer colouring than one could have......
A Nest Of Royalists. By Esme Stuart. (national Society.)—...
scene is laid in France, and the Duchesse de Berry appears in it. How some English children going abroad for economy's sake to Blois, find themselves in A Nest of Royalists, is......
Bush Luck. By W. H. Timperley. (religious Tract Society.)...
of Bush Luck will get a fair notion of what the life of a squatter means, at least the best sides of a squatter's life. Things go fairly easily with the hero, but, on the whole,......
The Paradise Of The North. By D. Lawson Johnstone. (w.
and R. Chambers.)—In this tale the Pole is actually discovered in the middle of a fertile country, and the air of probability for this startling finale is ingeniously preserved......
Seven Times In The Fire. By C. Maud Battersby. (religious
Tract Society.)—A somewhat gloomy "story of France in Revolu- tion Times." There is a quite sufficient store of horrors collected here for the reader, and, though the darkness......
Sunshine. By Amy Johnson. (macmillan And Co.)—a Great...
rudimentary science and philosophy is made easy for children in Sunshine. We have the innumerable experiments and commonplace tricks that everybody knows reacted, amplified,......
The Earth - Fiend : A Ballad. Made And Etched By William
Strong. (Elkin Matthews.)—A Scottish peasant cultivates a piece of land, but finds that nothing prospers on it. By the advice of a wise woman, he watches for and captures the......
A Small Legacy. By Esme Stuart. (national Society.)—the "...
" is a little orphan boy, born in America, who is sent to his surviving relative in England, where he becomes a general favourite and a source of amusement with his......
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