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The Sunday At Home, 1911 - 12. (r. T. S. 7s. 6d.)—the

annual volume of this periodical runs to nearly a thousand copiously Illustrated pages. There is plenty of fiction and articles chiefly of a religious tendency. The latter......

The Rose Fairy Book. Edited By Mrs. Herbert Strang. (henry

Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—There is no original work in these stories, which are a very good selection, including some of the best-known favourites. Several are......

Bartoloui. (w. Heinemann. 2s. 6d. Net.)—in This Volume Of...

series of "The Engravers of England" the publisher gives us nineteen reproductions of stipple engravings by Bartolozzi with some more by J. R. Smith and others, making......

Naw Editions.—messrs. Constable And Co. Have Reprinted...

short stories at 1s. each net. They are excellently got up and well illustrated, and will probably be new to the younger generation of readers, for they were originally......

Hardy Perennials And Herbaceous Borders. By Walter P....

Brothers. 12s. 6d. net.)—A finely and profusely lllustrated volume, with coloured plates from paintings and photo- graphs. It is mainly intended for amateurs, so far as the......

Current Literature.

WILLI A TX THE SILENT. William the Silent. By J. C. Squire. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—It is a pleasure in these days when historical hackwork is one of the staples of the......

• Angeligise. By Constance Elizabeth Hand. (duckworth And...

curious illusion of thinking in French and speaking in English which this writer has the faculty of conveying to her readers, is here carried out with much vivacity. "Le PIA......

Chatterbox, 1912. (wells Gardner, Dorton And Co. 3s. ; Cloth

5s.)—This venerable children's magazine keeps up its old traditions without lagging behind the times in such matters as coloured illustrations. There is a serial schoolboy story......

Kiss Netherby's Niece. By Alice M. Chesterton. (t. Nelson...

Sons. as. &L)—This book begins with an account of a prize dis- tribution party at a London high school for girls, but it is chiefly concerned with the busy life led by a......

Herbert Strang's Annual. (h. Frowde And Hodder And...

net.)—This is another of the popular collections of exciting stories and instructive articles on such subjects as, for example, lightships and torpedoes. It has a large number......

Camp-fire Tales. Illustrated By Edwin Noble. (t. Nelson...

6s. net.)—The hunters of big game write books for their friends and for one another; extracts from their works, describing particularly exciting adventures are here collected......

Poems Of Passion And Pleasure. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (gay

and Hancock. 15s. net.)—Mrs. Wilcox has, we believe, a great vogue among feminine readers on both sides of the Atlantic, and there will be many purchasers to welcome this......