The Adventures Of Sir John Sparrow, Bart. By Harold Begbie.
(Methuen and Co. es.)—There is something of a " Tom Jones 'S character about this book. The Baronet is, indeed, wholly unlike Fielding's hero ; the aim of the story, if it can......
Some Books Of The Week.
[1:nder this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not Lep reserved for renew us other loins.] Progress in New Zealand in the Century. By R. F. Irvine, M.A., and 0.......
Once Upon A Time. (r.t.s. 23.)—this "boy's Book Of Ad-
ventures" takes us to various parts of the world, to the English seas, to the Solomon Islands and other parts of the Pacific, to America, to Australia, &c. The "Pacific" stories......
Mesrs. Nelson And Sons Send Us The Friend Of Little
Children : a Short Life of Christ (3s. 6d.) We have no fault to find with this as far as the letterpress is concerned. The illustrations are of varying merit. The frontispiece,......
Gift-books.
The Boy's Own Annual. (R.T.S. Ss.)—This volume is, as usual, admirably adapted to its purpose, which is, we take it, to enter- tain, and in entertaining also instruct, a......
In Kings' Byways. By Stanley Weyman. (smith, Elder, And Co.
6s.)—This volume is made up of short stories, commonly dis- appointing when they are thus brought together, but in this case so skilfully managed as to produce an effect of......
Si. George And The Chinese Dragon. By Lieutenant -...
Vaughan. (C. Arthur Pearson. 3s. 6d.) — Colonel Vaughan has put together in this volume a narrative of the doings of the Indian part of the British force in China, — i.e., of......
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