Fifty Pounds. By Christabel R. Coleridge. (national...
story Miss Coleridge pursues the fortunes of some of the characters who appeared in her "Green Girls of Greythorpe." The principal personage is Linda Inglewood, whom we remember......
The White House At Inch Gow. By Sarah Pitt. (cassell
and Co.)—This is a quite harmless story, prettily told. The hero is a hard-working, somewhat hard-featured young man, who sticks to his purpose through good and evil, and......
Snowbound : A Winter Idyll. By Thomas Greenleaf Whittier....
is an illustrated edition of a poem which may fairly be reckoned as one of the poet's most successful efforts. It is, in fact, a chapter of autobiography, for it gives a picture......
Kate Greenaway's Almanac For 1892. (routledge And Sons.)—...
a pretty little book, charming within and without, and of a size that may be conveniently carried in a purse. The illustra- tions are in Miss Greenaway's well-known style. Each......
We Have Received New Editions Of Adventures In Australia;...
the Wanderings of Captain Spencer, by Mrs. R. Lee ; and Among the Zulus ; or, the Adventures of Hans Sterk, by General Drayson. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This latter tale was......
Our Fellows At St. Mark's. By Walter C. Rhoades. (w.
P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, Edinburgh.)—There is often a certain difficulty in recognising the schools where the scene of "school stories" is laid. We do not mean the......
Ivan And Esther. By Alice Lang. (religious Tract...
"tale of Jewish life in Russia" is intended, doubtless, to satisfy an interest that is very widely felt at the present time in a suffering race. It is perhaps less appropriate......
A Baby's Biography. By A. 0. Kaplan. With Pictures By
France's Brundage. (Dean and Son.)—Here is an opportunity for some proud parent just rejoicing over a first-born. The " bio- graphy " is suited for any baby. The first page......
Those Other Animals. By G. A. Henty. (henry And Co.)—this
is a pleasant, readable volume, as, indeed, all that Mr. Henty writes is pretty sure to be ; but we cannot profess to have found much "wit or humour," though it is part of a......
The Constable Of The Tower. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (national
Society.)—Hubert de Burgh is the hero of Miss Yonge's new story (the Hubert of Shakespeare's King John, it may be as well to remind the reader). She takes a certain......
For King And Home. By Mary H. Debenham. (national...
is a story of the rising in La Vendee. A brother and sister, who have French kindred, play important parts in it, but the heroine is the peasant-girl Etiennette, whose unselfish......
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