Starwood Hall. By The Author Of "a Greek Idyl." (national
Society.)—This will not be a very popular story with boys. There is not sufficient incident of a striking or original character. Still, there is something to praise in it. The......
Ralph Hardeastle's Will. By Agnes Giberne. (hatchards.)—...
strong conviction that the eccentric will of Ralph Hard- castle, on which Miss Giberne builds her story, would have been upset long before the hundred years during which it was......
The Battlefield Treasure. By F. Bayford Harrison....
old antiquarian takes a liking to Jack Warren, the hero of the story. He induces him, with some difficulty, to assist him in his search for coins and remains on Salisbury Plain.......
The Middy And The Moors. By R. M. Ballantyne. (nisbet
and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne's boy-friends, who must be pretty numerous by this time, will have a good idea of what sort of entertainment he will provide for them when they hear of......
Ton Price Defrauds In Some Way That We Do Not
quite understand, possibly because we are not so well acquainted with business matters as "C. E. M.," the family of a country squire, Mr. Stanniforth. The poor squire dies ; but......
Is Entrusted To A Man's Care, But Bad Times Come,
and he is tempted to prop his failing fortunes with the trust-money; of course, he is ruined or nearly so, his domestic affairs being complicated by his jealous daughter, who,......
The Mystery Of Askdale. By Edith Ileraud. (digby And...
is a somewhat foolish and unpleasant tale. A sensational story cannot depend on its plot alone for interest, unless that plot be remarkably good. Unfortunately, Miss Heraud's......
A New Beginning. By Helen Shipton. (s.p.c.e.)—here We...
story of a young man who goes to the bad, and is brought back to better ways by the combined influences of a good parson who carries into his new profession the military habit......
Blue Lights ; Or, Hot Work In The Soudan. By
R. M. Ballantyne. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—The nearer he approaches to the realms of actual fact, the less imaginative, and therefore the less charming, does Mr. Ballantyne become.......
To Horse And Away. By Frances Mary Peard. (national...
—Perhaps the most interesting part of Miss Peard's new story consists in some of the adventures which Charles II. meets with during his flight after the Battle of Worcester. The......
Deb And The Duchess. By L. T. Meade. (hatchards.)— "
Deb " is a quick-tempered, dreamy child, who, by some freak of Nature, finds herself in the midst of a family of placid, matter-of-fact brothers and sisters. She is, as one may......
Carried 01 By Esme Stuart. (national Society.)—an In-...
of adventure and peril. The scene is laid in the West Indies. The great buccaneer, Henry Morgan, makes an attack on the Spanish settlement there, beginning with the Island of......
Not Unequal To It. Ned Woodthorpe Desires Adventures, And...
his desire. He is swept out to sea in trying to rescue a bather, saved by a boatman, driven on to a lightship, and swept out of the lightship in the rigging of a vessel which......
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