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Was She Justified ? By C. J. Wills. (spencer Blackett.)—mr.

Wills dedicates his story to Henrik Ibsen, "the great Scandi- navian moralist," on whose "preserves "—a curious expression, by-the-way, when the province of a moralist is......

The English Illustrated Magazine, 1890 - 91....

display a really extraordinary wealth of good matter. It opens with a poem by Mr. Swinburne, written in verse which, whatever its other merits, comes as near to the roll of the......

A Fair Free - Lance. By Sir Gilbert Campbell. (routledge...

is a book of the " shocker " kind, though, we presume, not priced at the modest shilling. The horrors ate of a conventional kind. Squire Thelluson, a violent and lawless sort of......

The Buffalo Runners : A Tale Of The Red River

Plains. By R. M. Ballantyne. (Nisbet and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne lays the scene of his story in a region which is now one of the great wheat-countries of the world,—that which has......

The Quiver, 1890 - 91. (cassell And Co.)—we Welcome Again...

useful and judiciously conducted "Magazine for Sunday and General Reading." Among the tales are, "On Stronger Wings," by Miss Edith Lyster ; "Waiting to be Claimed," by Miss......

We Have Received From The Religious Tract Society The Annual

issues of three periodicals. The Cottager and Artisan, interesting and useful in its way, but scarcely suited for the labourer, whether of town or country, as he is now......

The Church Monthly, 1890 - 91. (church Monthly Office.)...

imposing list of contributors, and is not un- worthy of it. Tales, miscellaneous papers, devotional articles, music (a hymn, with tune, being published in each number), and many......

Royal Youths: A Book Of Princehoods. By Iscott R. Hope.

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—The eight lives which Mr. Aseott Hope has chosen for telling in this volume, are those of Conradin, "the last of the Hohenstaufens," Don Carlos (the son of......

The Brown Owl. By Ford H. Madox Hueffer. (t. Fisher

Unwin.)—The author has not succeeded in that most difficult of tasks, the writing of a new fairy-tale. It is almost impossible to preserve what may be called the absolute......

The Boy's Own Annual And The Girl's Own Annual (5(3

Paternoster Row) are, as our young readers are probably aware, the annual issues of The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's Own Paper. Each consists of more than eight hundred pages,......

The Cabinet Portrait Gallery. From Photographs By W. And D.

Downey. Second Series. (Cassell and Co.)—Here are thitty-six photographs, all more or less good, of personages more or less eminent. The notices are from a pen or pens unnamed.......

We Have Received A "new Edition, Revised And Enlarged," Of

Indoor Games and _Recreations : a Popular Encyclopedia for Boys, edited by G. A. Hutchinson. (Religious Tract Society.)......