Good Cheer And The Paths Of Peace.—good Cheer, The Christmas
number of Good Words, and Paths of Peace, the Christmas number of the Sunday Magazine, are both capital this year. The stories in Good Cheer, by Charles C. Gibbon and......
Messrs. Shaw Are Publishing Cheap Editions Of Some Of Their
successful stories for children. We have before us Mistress 3fargery, a Tale of the Loll ards, by Emily Sarah Holt ; and Scamp and I, by L. T. Meade ; and Froggie's Little......
May Fair Opens With The First Instalment Of A Tale
from the pen of M. hmile Zola. This, so far as it goes, is quite inoffensive ; but it reveals the capability of becoming quite volcanic. This quiet Theritse may develope into......
Straight To The Mark. By The Rev. T. S. Millington.
(Religious Tract Society.)—This is in the main a story of school life, and a very excellent story, too, so far as this element of it is concerned. Of course, it is idealised—boy......
Of Other Books For Children We May Mention A Year
at Coventry, by Annie S. Swan ; and Fritz's Experiment, by Letitia McClintock (Blackie and Son) ; The Christmas Roses, 1883 (James Clarke and Co.), with its particularly......
We Gladly Make Our Annual Acknowledgment Of Sunday...
now appear collected in volumes. From the Religions Tract Society we get The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home, of which we can do little more than repeat the now familiar......
Merry England Opens Appropriately With A Powerful Plea...
holidays, from the pen of Mr. George Saintsbury. The frontispiece is an excellent, etched portrait of Sir John Lubbock. " Master and Man," by Miss Alice Corkran, gives an......
Dainty Drawings For Little Painters. Outline Pictures, By...
with descriptive Stories, by C. Shaw. (Shaw and Co.)—These outlines are to be coloured, a process for guidance in which the artist gives some simple directions. It is a little......
Launcey Vernon, By The Author Of "to The City" (s.p.c.k.),
is another story of child-life. It is the tale of a friendship, strengthened by more than one adventure and by mutual services, between "Edie " and " Launcey," and should make......
Ambitious Attempt To Read The Riddle Of Swift's Unhappy Life
is made with so much presumption and so little judgment, so much boldness and Do little skill, that it entirely fails. The book is fall of anachronisms, extending to criticisms......
The Journal Of Education Is Always Welcome, So...
ducted is it, and so sound are its judgments on educational matters. The short notes with which its first pages are occupied are always an admirable résumé of the educational......
The Five Wounds Of The Holy Church. By Antonio Rosmini.
Edited, with an Introduction, by H. P. Liddon, D.D. (Rivington.)— Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855) was a compound, more remarkable in his days than now—and it is scarcely common......
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