The Children's Shakespeare. By Alice Spencer Hoffmann....
and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here we have twenty of the plays " told and chosen "—should it not have been " chosen and told" P The choice is not altogether to our taste. Othello, for......
Lives Of Great Men Told Hy Great Men. Edited By
Richard Wilson. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6s. net.)—We are glad to have Mr. Wilson's book, though we -do not altogether approve of his choice. Some of the men whose lives are told......
Rou In The Woods. Written And Illustrated By Ernest Thomp-
son Seton. (Constable and Co. Cs. net.)—Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has written an extremely good boys' story. It deals with the adventures of Rolf Kittering, a Yankee lad of......
A Book Of Noble Women. By C. C. Cairns. (t.
C. and E. C. Jack. 7s. eal. net.)—Though the women of whom Mrs. Cairns writes are as far apart in time and temperament as Vittoria Colonna and Miss Beale, the reader would,......
Good Cheer: The Romance Of Food And Feeding. By Frederick
W. Hackwood. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hackwood has many interesting things to tell us, from the discoveries made in the " kitchen raiddens " of primitive man to the......
The Master Builders. By S. B. Macy. (lon,gmans And Co.
3s. Cal. net.)—Here we have " the story of the Acts of the Apostles re-told to children," and very well re-told too. Mr. Macy has taken great pains to consult the best......
The 'flower Of Gloster.' By E. Temple Thurston....
W. R. Dakin. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Thurston spent a delightful spring holiday in wandering about some of the canals of England in a barge called the `Flower......
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