Black And Blue. By Ascott R. Hope. (a And C.
Black.)—This is a clever but rather disappointing story. Mr. Hope, who is a past master in the art of telling boys' stories, and who, from certain passages in this book, shows......
Mr. Lang's "animal Story-book." *
WE are inclined to prefer this volume to all Mr. Lang's many- coloured "Fairy Books" or "True Story-Books." Dogs and eats and elephants and monkeys, to speak only of the aris-......
Sir Evelyn's Charge; Or, A Child's Influence. By " H. I.
A." (Hodder and Stoughton.) —We have hero a popular edition of a thoroughly healthy and well-intentioned, but almost painfully good and pathetic, story for children. It tells in......
His First Year At School. By Alfred West. (fisher Unwin.)—
This is a very cleverly written and even realistic story of school- life, which, as the author indeed expressly says, is intended quite as much for parents as for boys. The......
Swept Out To Sea. By David Ker. (w. And R.
Chambers.)— This is one of the best stories Mr. Ker has ever produced, and one of the best volumes of the present gift-book season. It is full of incidents in the shape of......
Gift-books.
THE PALADINS OF KING EDWIN.* SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM has hit upon an excellent idea. Every one has heard of the fair-haired English boys who so touched the heart of Gregory the......
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