King's Daughters. By M. Bramston. (national Society. Ls....
Bramston has made a bold experiment with success. She has found a subject in the troubled period which followed the fall of Jerusalem. Her hero is Gedaliah, the ill-fated ruler......
A Bounty Boy.t
THE " Bounty Boy " is Christmas Bounty Adams, born some fifty years ago on Norfolk Island, to which place, it will be remembered, when it ceased to be a convict settlement, the......
We Must Mention Together, And For Lack Of Space Dismiss
with the briefest notice, some stories for girls :—Three Girls from School, by L. T. Meade (W. and R. Chambers, 5s.) ; and from the same publishers, That Troublesome Ursula, by......
Two - Legs, And Other Stories. By Carl Ewald. Translated...
Danish by Alex. Teixeira de Mattes. (Methuen and Co. 6s.) —Our author's idea of the "fairy-tale" which a few wise men and many women and children will prefer to anything else is......
The Unlucky Family, By Mrs. Henry De La Pasture. Illustrated
by E. T. Reed. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—We must confess that we have not been able to get as much pleasure from this book as we expected when we saw the names of the writer......
The Voyage Of The Blue Vega.' By Dr. Gordon Stables,
R.N. (R.T.S. Ss. 6d.)—Dr. Gordon Stables is an old hand at tales of adventure, whether the scene be laid in the Tropics or as near as may be to the Pole. This story is full of......
Geoffrey Harrington's Adventures. By Harry Collingwood....
romance of a very romantic type indeed. The hero, a manager in an engineering firm, falls on bad days, emigrates, and on a voyage from San Francisco to Yokohama is wrecked and......
Tales Of Greyhouse. By R. S. Warren Bell. (a. And
C. Black. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Warren Bell knows boys and schools, and how to pitch a school story in the right key, to give us plenty of stirring episodes—a rebellion, a fire, and what......
The Children And The Pictures. By Lady Tennant. (w. Heine-
mann. 6s.)—Lady Tennant makes a very successful combination of literature and art in this volume. She takes twenty-one famous pictures by English artists, portraits by Reynolds,......
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