The Growth Of The Brain. By H. H. Donaldson. "
Contem- porary Science" Series. (Walter Scott.)—Technical as is Professor Donaldson's study of the brain in relation to education, it has a great fascination. He gives us......
The Bank - Clerk's Secret, And Other Tales. Edited By J....
Clarke, M.A. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a collection of short stories,—most of them with a purpose, and an essentially pathetic one, and all more than fairly well......
A Bid For Fortune. By Guy Boothby. (ward, Lock, And
Bowden.)—Mr. Boothby has certainly given us a marvellously lively story ; ani in Dr. Nikola, the portentous hero of it, a man who, for resource and diablerie, can only be......
The Two D.annores. By Blake Lamond. (remington And Co.) —if
stories of this type are to be known as " sporting love-stories of the day," we have indeed fallen on bad times. " Blake Lamond" takes the opportunity of airing her own views on......
Messrs. Seeley And Co. Have Published A Beautiful...
illustrations by Mr. George Morrow, that are actually worthy of the text, of Mary Russell Mitford's delicious Country Stories. It is quite possible that to appreciate these......
George Morland. By R. Richardson. Illustrated. (elliot...
very appreciative and affectionate sketch of Morland's life and his extraordinary gift of rapid drawing. Mr. Richardson does not attempt to gloss over Morland's faults and the......
Faith Cotlerill. Selected And Edited By J. Erskine...
(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a pleasing little col- lection of short and simple stories intended mainly to teach the immortal lessons of love and self-sacrifice. The......
The Shuttle Of Fate. By Caroline Masters. (frederick...
Co.)—This is a good story of English North-country life of the sort which recalls Mrs. Gaskell, however, more than Char- lotte Brontë. The quasi-hero, Stephen Cronshaw, alias "......
The New House - Master. By Charles Edwardes. (sampson Low...
we have undoubtedly a new and humorous development in the way of books for boys. It is a combination of crime, detection, and school life. Three thieves sitting in the......
Princess And Priest. By A. S. F. Hardy. (downey And
Co.)— Any attempt to reproduce for the readers of the nineteenth century the social life and civilisation of Ancient Egypt deserves consideration. That that civilisation was a......
Joe Ford, By Sydney Newton (t. Fisher Unwin), Is A
clever story of a rather gruesome practical joke which is also a psycho- logical experiment. Sir James Keith, a millionaire, has brought up Christine and Leslie Dalton, the......
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