The Brahman's Plot. By The Rev. W. T. Wilkins. (religious
Tract Society.)—This is "a story of two friends," the scene being laid in India, and it is told in a very simple, unpretending style. The two friends are old acquaintances in......
Mrolee. By Thomas Stephens. Edited By Llywant Reynolds,
(Longuians.)—At an Eisteddfod held at Llangollen some thirty-five years ago, a prize was offered for the best essay on the "Discovery of America in the Twelfth Century by Prince......
Sail-ho Or, A Boy At Sea. By G. Manville Rein.
(S.P.C.K.)— Mr. Fenn always tells a story well. He knows his subject, be it of the land or of the sea, be the scene in it mine, or a factory, or a tropical river; and the course......
Current Literature.
Portuguese Discoveries, Dependencies, and Missions in Asia and Africa. By the Rev. Alex. J. D. D'Orsey, B.D. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—This is a book which is dated and prefaced and......
The Australian Commonwealth. By Greville Tregarthen....
Series. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We regret to say that this book, on a subject of the highest interest, is not com- piled in a manner to inspire interest enough to justify a long......
In The Grip Of The Algerine. By Robert Leighton. (sunday-
School Union.)—The story before us relates the adventures of a would-be page in the days of Queen Elizabeth ; would-be because lie never gets to Court, but is kidnapped by......
Gift-books.
The Magazine of Art, 1593. (Cassell and Co.)—The annual volume of this magazine displays the great variety of interest which distinguishes it. We may find elsewhere finer......
Life On The Ceara). By The Rev, W. Holman Bentley,
(Religious Tract Society.)—This is the third edition of an interesting little book, the work of a missionary in the region which he describes. The author has added a chapter......
In Africa With The Union-tack. By W. Pimblett. (j. S.
Virtue and Co.)—Even the interest attaching to some of the adventures of our " Union-Jack" in Africa cannot redeem the very third-rate style and treatment of his subject by Mr.......
Voyages Of The Elizabethan Seamen To America. Edited By...
John Payne. (Clarendon Press.)—The voyages of Hawkins, Fro- bisher, and Drake, here reproduced from Hakluyt, are well worth reproduction, though we can hardly agree with Mr.......
My Book Of Fairy-tales. (edward Arnold.)—here We Have...
the old favourites,—" Beauty and the Beast," " Tom Thumb," "Blue-Beard," "Aladdin," and the rest of the familiar figures. They seem to us much the same as they have always......
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