Under The Naga Banner. By Charles J. Mansford. (john Hogg.)
.—An Indian doctor, and a lawyer who is his patient, go for a bit of hunting somewhere on the Afghan frontier. There they meet another Englishman, who is on a similar errand.......
Through Swamp And Glade. By Kirk Munroe. (blackie And Son.)
—This "tale of this Seminole War" reminds us of Fenimore Cooper. Coacoochee is not wholly unlike Uncas, though fate is kinder to him. The Seminoles were tho native inhabitants......
Only Susan. By Emma Marshall. (nisbet And Co.)—this Is...
up to the usual mark of Mrs. Marshall's stories. Possibly the form in which it is put has something to do with this. "Only Susan" tells her own story. She is a sort of......
Kings Of The Sea. By Hume Nisbet. (f. V. White
and Co.)— This is a story of the Jacobite times, the hero being mixed up with the rising of 1715. There is fighting on land and fighting on sea. Sir Hugh Driscoll, the hero's......
The Secret Of The Fire Mountain. By K. M. Eady.
(A. Melrose.) —Reginald Wyke, falsely accused of the crime of forgery, takes refuge in an island of the Pacific, where he acquires a very con- siderable influence. It is the......
Stuff And Nonsense. By A. B. Frost. (john C. Nimmo.)—
This is a book of verses after the fashion so well set by Mr. Lear and so seldom followed with success by his imitators. The draw- ings are, sometimes at least, good, but the......
Travel - Pictures From Palestine. By James Wells, D.d....
"pictures" are very cleverly drawn as regards the work both of pen and pencil. The pen, perhaps, is the more realistic, the pencil the more attractive, of the two elements which......
The Leisure Hour, 1896. (56 Paternoster Row.)—one Of The...
attractive features in this volume is Mr. Frederick Lang. bridge's story, " Dania's Dreams." It is an Irish tale, and bubbles over, so to speak, with the freshest humour. It is......
From Fag To Monitor. By Andrew Home. (a. And C.
Black.)— The school part of this tale is fairly good, the actions and the con- versations of the boy being not unlike what they may be supposed really to be. The adventures......
The Sunday At Home. (r.t.s.)—there Is, As Usual, Plenty Of
excellent and appropriate reading in the yearly volume of this magazine. "Appropriate," we say, because it seems to us to give as practically useful an answer as any publication......
The Countess Helena. By Marion Andrews. (gardner, Darton,...
is a tale of the Franco-German War, in which the not unfamiliar complications of true love triumphing over diffi- culties are once more introduced. The heroine is deceived by......
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