Matthew Parkyn. By Mrs. Henry Clarke. (s.p.c.k.)—the...
Australia, where we are introduced to the hero and the convict Sanders, with whose past and future the tale is inti- mately connected. Parkyn returns to England, where his......
The Kipling Birthday Book. Compiled By Joseph Finn. (mac-...
and Co.)—If popularity is the condition of being exhibited in a birthday book, there can be no doubt of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's claim. Otherwise we do not think that this......
The Reader Will Be Inclined To Shut Up The Book,
or to relieve it by peeping at the end. We may advise the doubtful to persevere. They will find a capital little story, with a very wholesome pur- pose, not too obtrusively put.......
England's Navy. By F. M. Holmes. (s. W. Partridge And
Co.) —Mr. Holmes also gives us a " glance at some navies of the ancient world," telling us about the naval supremacy of Athens, the fatal expedition to Syracuse, and, passing......
Goldsmith's Comedies. Edited By Joseph Jacobs. (george...
has something to tell us about the circumstances under which the comedies were brought out. In his criticisms of Goldsmith he does not give us anything of remarkable value.......
Hornbook Jingles. By Mrs. Arthur Gaskin. (leadenhall...
begins by describing, by pen and pencil, the horn- books out of which the little girls of bygone generations learnt to read. This is well enough ; let us hope that young people......
Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books. By Horatio. R. F.
Eden. (S.P.C.K.)—The edition of Mrs. Ewing's books which we have noticed from time to time in these columns is now completed by a memoir, supplemented with a selection from her......
Wulfric The Weapon - Thane. By Charles W. Whistler....
was the armour-bearer of Edmund, the East Anglian sub-King, who was martyred by the Danes in 870. Mr. Whistler has carefully studied the authorities, and gives us a very......
An Ocean Outlaw. By Hugh St. Leger. (blackio And Son.)—
Mr. Hugh St. Leger is a writer who evidently is quite at home on the roaring wave. We have storms and mutinies, and the unfail- ing attraction of treasure trove, and everything......
Hester Lavenham. By Helen Watson. (r.t.s.)—the Story...
introduction of Miss Hester Lavenham, a new pupil and a very charming and pretty girl, to the school-room of Miss Millington. She comes from a country rectory, where her......
The Black Tor. By George Manville Fenn. (w. And R.
Chambers)—Two neighbours in the North Country, the Edens and the Darleys, cherish an hereditary feud. No one exactly knows how it arose. The Edens attribute it to an unprovoked......