The Triumphs Of Modern Engineering. By Remy Frith....
and Co.)—This is a book which will both entertain and instruct young readers who have a mechanical turn. The first section deals with "Railways." First among these is the Trans-......
Poor And Plain. By The Author Of "dethroned." (griffith,...
and Co.)—Doubtless it is well that the author of this " story for elder girls " should have had the courage to represent a heroine without the usual attractions. Whatever they......
Job Simmons ; Or, " I Am Nothing." By The
Rev. F. T. Bramston. (W. Skeffington and Son.)—The picture of the clergy- man of Ardslow is a very attractive one, and would make almost any story readable. Mr. Bramston's plot......
Heart Of Gold. By L. T. Meade. (warne And Co.)—this
is one of Mrs. Meade's happiest efforts. Hope and Jocelyn are twin- sisters who early choose different paths in life, Jocelyn walking in the way of luxury and selfishness, Hope......
Romance Of Real Life. (religious Tract Society.)—here We...
"True Incidents in the Lives of the Great and Good," appropriately illustrated with nearly twice as many pictures. A Moravian missionary in the Nicobar Island, John Knox, Robert......
The Rajah's Legacy. By David Ker. (griffith, Farran, And...
—Mr. Ker has seen a good deal of the world, and can describe what he has seen with a very graphic pen. This tale has the look of being devised as a string, so to speak, on which......
We Have Received A New Edition Of Mr. W. H.
G. Kingston's version of the Swiss Family Robinson (G. Routledge and Sons). There are ninety-five illustrations, all good in their degree, the coloured being, we think, a......
Magic At Home. Translated And Edited By Professor...
and Co.)—This is a volume of "somewhat free trans- lation " from the French of M. Arthur Good. The speciality of the book is its quasi-scientific character, and, as a rule, the......
Cassell's Saturday Journal. (cassell And Co.) — The...
an abundance of entertaining reading. Perhaps we might say that their " fictionists " (a hideous but not inconvenient word) are slightly sensational, as their humorists are......
Master Rockafellar's Voyage. By W. Clark Russell....
Rockafellar is seized with a longing to go to sea, and persuades his father and mother to let him take a voyage. Accordingly, he is entered as a "midshipman" on board a......
The Harvest Fields. Illustrated By Ernest Wilson....
Faulkner.)—This is a volume of poetical extracts, bearing on summer and harvest. Thomson, Longfellow, and Crabbe are the chief names among the poets laid under contribu- tion.......
Rosebud. By Mrs. Adams Acton (jeanie Hering). (routledge...
one who had the supreme good-fortune to possess such a child as Rosebud need despair, however great the troubles into which he might be plunged. She is a most delightful little......
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