Walter Crane's Painting - Book (routledge And Sons),...
after the art of colouring with twelve coloured plates, occupying a page each, and faced by an outline left plain, which he is to colour in imitation of the original. Better......
Netley Abbey. Written By Thomas Ingoldsby. Pictures By...
Jessop. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—There is some- thing, we cannot but think, in the Ingoldsby humour that does not quite suit the present day. Its quality of fun is undoubted,......
Our Sunday Book Of Reading And Pictures. By Thomas Archer.
(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Mr. Archer has made his extracts, which are more than a hundred and twenty in number, from a wide range of books, and with considerable judgment.......
The Child Of The Caravan. By E. M. Green. Illustrated
by Edith Scannell. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This is a very pathetic, almost too pathetic story. There are not many, we fancy, who will read it from beginning to end dry-eyed.......
White Lilac. By Amy Walton. (blackie And Son.)—this Is A
very simple story, leading up to no more dramatic denouement than little Lilac White's choice whether or no she shall stop at Orchard's farm ; but, for all its simplicity, it is......
The Cruise Of The Wasp.' By Henry Frith. (routledge And
Sons.) —This a story of the usual kind, even bringing in the accustomed shark, but it is told with more than usual vigour. The hero is a young lad who gets a Midshipman's berth......
Three Boys. By G. Manville Fenn. (griffith, Farran, And Co.)
—This story is a little too extravagant in its details, we might almost say, farcical, to give Mr. Fenn's great power as a writer of tales a very favourable opportunity of......
The Young Marooners. By F. R. Goulding. With A Preface
by Joel Chandler Harris. (Routledge and Sons.)—It is about thirty- seven years since Dr. Goulding published this story. It had an immediate success in America (Dr. Goulding was......
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