The Ferry House Girls. By Bessie Merchant. (blackie And Son.
es. 8d.)—The Ferry House is somewhere on an Australian river, and all the surroundings of the story axe in keeping. There is a drought of the Australian type, the river falling......
A Daughter Of The West. By Morioe Gerard. (s. W.
Partridge and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Though this tale opens with a blizzard, the " West" of the title is not the land where such things are common, but Cornwall, where they are......
Stories From Hans Andersen. With Illustrations By Edmund...
and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—The stories chosen are seven in number, "The Snow Queen" standing first in the list and being the longest. Next to it comes " The Nightingale." These......
Within A Year. By Frederick Harrison. (s.p.c.k. 3s. 6d.)—...
eventful year which Mr. Harrison has set himself to describe is one of the last of the eighteenth century. Great days those of highwaymen and smugglers, and our tale opens with......
Redwood Ranch. By Bessie Merchant. (s.p.c.k. 2e. 6d.)—...
somewhat amateurish adventures of young Oscar Layne this story of an isolated Californian ranch does give the reader a notion of the life led by a settler's family. The......
Stories Of Indian Gods And Heroes. By W. D. Monro,
MA. (George G. Harrap and Co. 5s. net.) —Mr. Monro explains lucidly in his Preface the sources from which he gets the material for his stories. These are, to put it briefly, the......
The Champion Of The &hoof. By Captain Frank H. Shaw.
(Cassell and Co. 3s. ed.)—There is a certain originality of plot in Captain Shaw's book. Jack Ambrose has to leave the Grammar School at 13attersfield. His father finds money......
The Wonderful Garden. By E. Nesbit. (macmillan And Co. 68.)
—Miss Nesbit has a very lively imagination and a very pretty gift of humour. Three children go on a visit to their uncle Charles. They are learned in the language of flowers,......
Peggy, B.g. By Helen H. Watson. (cassell And Co. 3s.
6d.)— This is a continuation of "Peggy, D.O." " S.G." means "school- girl"; so we have Peggy's experiences at Newton Spa, a high school for girls, which, with its very efficient......
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