Lost In Africa. By Frederick Horatio Winder. (sampson Low...
Co.)—This is a story of a well-approved kind. The hero is robbed of his patrimonial estate by a villainous claimant, and goes to South Africa in company with a sturdy......
Tales Of Daring And Danger. By G. A. Henty. (blackie
and Son.)—Here we have five short stories, all of them of excellent -quality. The first, the adventures of a young subaltern who goes -out bear-hunting, and has the good luck to......
Practical Education. By Charles G. Leland. (whittaker And...
who was at one time Director of the Public Industrial Art School at Philadelphia, United States, has a good right to speak. His subject is one of difficulty, not so much how to......
Captain. By Madame P. De Manteuil. Translated By Laura...
(Routledge and Sons.)—This is a capital story of a Breton sailor and his dog; perhaps it might be said, of a dog and a 'Breton sailor of whom he takes charge. The Breton,......
The Rouse Of Surprises. By L. T. Meade. (hatchards.)—mrs....
tells, in the charming way that is familiar to her readers, the story of four children. There is Christabel, a very good girl, and Phil, one of those naughty boys whom we are......
Strcvyding Castle. By Ellen Louisa Davis. (religious...
Lesage takes the place of valet to the Earl -of Strayding, vice the unprincipled Merritt, discharged. It is easy to see that he is no ordinary servant. In the hunting-field—for......
We Three. By" Yvonne." (w. Isbister.)—there Is Really...
to be said about this book, except that it answers sufficiently -well to its second title, "A Bit of Our Lives." There is no par- ticular story in it—" our lives seldom, happily......
Tales.—the Master Of Rylands. By Mrs. G. Lewis Leeds. (ward
and Downey.)—It would be difficult to say of what folly a woman—or, for the matter of that, a man—is not capable. Still, that any one should have been silly enough to become the......
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