Nest Of Girls. By E. W. Timlow. (w. And R.
Chambers. Gs.)—The story opens with the arrival at a girls' school Of the new teacher of literature. Then we are introduced to a dozen or so of the ' characters ; the......
Tales From Shakespeare. By Charles And Mary Lamb. With...
by W. Paget. (Ernest Nister. is. (ld.)—Mr. Paget's drawings are nob unworthy of the subject ; six are in colour, the rest, of which there are as many as seventy, including......
The Young Pearl Divers. By Lieutenant H. P. Whitmarsh. (john
Mae/peen. 5s )—The pearl divers are the sons of a squatter who, journeying too far in quest of a fresh grazing country, and after many adventures with blacks, come out on the......
A Versailles Christmastide. By Mary Stuart Boyd....
S..Boyd. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—This is a charmingly written account of a few weeks spent at Versailles. "The Boy," who was at school there, WSW laid up with scarlet fever,......
The Story Of Catharine Of Siena. By Florence Witty.....
ls.)—We are glad to see so good a subject wisely and courage- ously handled. "Miraculous visitations, superhuman power, ecstatic visions during which the bodily senses were......
A Real Queen's Fairy-book. By Carmen Sylva, (g. Newnes....
fairy-stories are admirable in their way, as good, in fact, as we should expect them to be when they come from "Carmen Sylva's " pan. What we most miss in them is the delightful......
The "times" Life Of Queen Victoria.* Tins Volume, A Solid
quarto, richly bound in royal scarlet and gold, with sumptuously wide margins, and all that is desirable in paper and print, has an appearance that is not below the dignity of......
The Children's London. By Charlotte Thorpe. (leadenhall...
net.) —Miss Thorpe very properly begins with the Tower, which, though hardly as old as Julius Caesar, is doubtless the oldest building in London. Westminster Hall itself has not......
The Argonauts Of The Amazon. By C. R. Kenyon. (w.
and R. Chambers. 35. 6d.)—Mr. Kenyon's modern Argonauts seek the lost treasure of the Incas, and though they find it, when the story closes they return without it. Nevertheless,......
The Kopje Garrison. By G. Manville Fenn. (w. And R.
Chambers. 5a)—Mr. Manville Fenn tells us the story of how a few companies hold a kopje for weeks against a cunning and not over-scrupulous foe. There are sallies, surprises,......
Sunday Reading For The Young. (wells Gardner, Darton, And...
8s. and 5s.)--If we were asked to define the meaning of "young "—a useful thing in judging of this kind of volume— we should say " eight to eleven," with a certain latitude at......
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