Betty And Co. By Ethel Turner (mrs. H. R. Curlewis).
(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—The first of these twelve stories, which gives its name to the book, is the best, as it is the longest. The children of a doctor's widow set up a shop to......
A Prefect's Uncle. By P. G. Wodehouse. (a. And C.
Black. Rs. 6d.)—Take away the cricket from this story, and there will be very little left. The " uncle " is a mauvais sujet. What school may have been in the author's mind when......
Littledom Castle, And Other Tales. By Mrs. M. H. Spielmatm.
(Rontledge and Sons. 5s.)—We have said our say about modern fairy-tales again and again. Whatever their merits—and Mrs. Spielmann's work may fairly be credited with a good share......
Satisfactory Illustrations. The Young Ladies, Too, Seem...
to do without competitions and prizes.......
Professor Philander-pan. By G. E. Farrow. (c. Arthur...
Farrow is the proprietor, so to speak, of a not =fertile vein of humour, which many of our readers will, it is probable, recognise when we mention the " Wallypug." New things......
We Are Glad To Renew Our Acquaintance. It Is Full
of comical pictures, of beasts by preference, though now and then we have a fairy prince or princess by way of a change. These royal personages seem to us particularly well......
The Wonderful Castle. By Mary E. Murray. (s.s.13.
is a volume in the "Red Nursery Series," pleasantly told and adorned with unusually good illustrations.—Sea Children, by S. Hope Evans (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. 6d. net), records......
An Armchair Adventurer. By Harold Avery. (simpkin,...
35. 6d.)—This is a collection of most enter- taining stories of boy-life. An uncle, who has been crippled by an accident, tells us about the adventures of a graceless nephew,......
This Book With A "praise Of The Cat." She Tells
us how good and great men have been fond of cats, and what services have been rendered by cats to the world. And the book itself is a story which is intended to inculcate......
A Book Of Bad Children. By W. Trego Webb. (methuen
and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the "Little Blue Books," and, granted that it is a joke to be a "bad child," entertaining. The children, however, are not really "bad," and they......
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