The Coxswain's Bride, And Other Tales. By R. M. Ballantyne.
(Nisbet.)—The first and longest of the three stories which com- pose this volume shows Mr. Ballantyne at his best. Robert Massey, the coxswain of the Greyton lifeboat, who is......
Among New Editions Of Books More Or Less Well Known,
we have : — Uncle Tom's Cabin. By H. Beecher-Stowe. (John Hogg.)—Dr. A. H. Japp has prefixed a memoir, and the original illustrations, one hundred in number, by the late George......
Not Wanted. By Eliza F. Pollard. (partridge.; —this Is A
good story of an old-fashioned kind. A bad man tries to get rid of the heir to a property, and, to accomplish this end, utilises various people, including a good man who is a......
A Nun And Her Friends. By Katharine Tynan. (kegan Paul,
Trench, and Co.) — Mother Mary Xaveria Fallon, whose story is told in this volume, held high office among the Nuns of Loretto, an Order which devotes itself to education. The......
The Boy - Settlers. By Noah Brooks. (sampson Low And...
chief object of the author of this book in writing it appears to have been to show that pioneer work in American civilisation was undertaken under the inspiration of Whittier,......
Won By Honour. By " V Anda." (digby And Long.)—the
inten- tion of this curiously antique piece of writing and story-telling is no doubt good, being to encourage right-doing and moral courage, and to discourage the reverse. There......
Climbing The Hill, And Other Stories. By Annie S. Swan.
(Blackie.)—Two of these stories by the eminently popular Scotch author, Miss Annie Swan—" A Year at Coverley " and " Holidays at Sunnycroft "—are not in her usual style, and......
Cesar Cascabel. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low, Marston,...
is one of the stories which M. Jules Verne con- structs at once so simply and so ingeniously, and which he tells with such unfailing spirit. CC:sar Cascabel is a French showman......
Memoirs Of Prince Talleyrand. Edited By The Due De Broglie.
Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. III. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This volume concludes the story of Talleyrand's connection with the First Restoration of 1814 and the Second......
Gladys Anstruther. By Louisa Thompson. (blackie.)—there...
of piquancy and pathos in this rather badly compacted but original and not unattractive story. The most likeable and improbable portion of it is the first, in whioh Elinor......
St. Ignatius Loyola And The Early Jesuits. By Stewart Rose.
(Burns and Oates.)—This is a very handsome volume, full of in- teresting matter, and admirably illustrated. We cannot say that Mr. Stewart Rose is a critical historian. He would......
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