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A Heroine Of The Sea. By Bessie Marchant. (blackie And

Son. 3s. 6d.)—Maudie Belloc is a heroine of the Pacific, and youthful readers will find a pleasant change in trying to realise the conditions of a settler's life in Vancouver......

For King Or Empress? By C. W. Whistler. (t. Nelson

and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Whistler has chosen for his subject a time about which very little has been written. The King is Stephen ; the Empress is Matilda. His tale, then, has a......

Tales From Maria Edgeworth.*

WHY go back, it might be asked, to these century-old stories—the first portion of the tales appeared in 1794—when there are so many competitors of the newest style and fashion......

In Jacobite Days. By Mrs. Henry Clarke. (t. Nelson And

Sons. 5s.)—The scene of Mrs. Clarke's tale is laid in the West Country at the time of the landing of William of Orange. Her hero, a certain Gilbert Lane, relates his adventures......

Nobody's Baby. By Tom Gallon. (eveleigh Nash. 6s.) —i Very

pathetic idea is embodied in this charming story—an idea such as Mrs. Oliphant would have loved—and it furnishes a con- venient plot on which to hang a subsidiary romance. A......

Peter The Pilgrim. By L. T. Meade. (w. And R.

Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—Little Peter Rankin thinks that he will go on pilgrimage, and starts accordingly. London does well enough for the City of Destruction; but he finds it......

In Search Of The Okapi. By Ernest Glanville. (blackie And

Bon. Gs.) — In this story Mr. Ernest Glanville takes two boys to the great Congo Forest, with an older man as head of the expedition. It is a great stroke of luck that two such......

Sunset Bock. By May Baldwin. (w. And R. Chambers. 62.)—

The moral of this story is that "pride goes before a fall," and it must be admitted that Edith Everard points it very well. She is a very admirable character in some respects,......