The Better Man. By Arthur Paterson. (ward And Downey.)— We
have pleasure in noticing another, and perhaps the best, of Mr. Paterson's lively stories of Western life. The characters are well, and some of them finely drawn,—the hero's......
A Little Candle. By Mary H. Debenham. (national Society.)...
is a story of the last days of James II. on the English throne, and the time that followed, when his party hoped against hope to bring him back. Bride, or Bridget, Murray is the......
Part Of The Eighteenth Centary—(the Writer Calls It The...
teenth century, though his story begins in the eighteenth). It is mostly founded on facts and records ; this lends an interest to the tale over and above what it naturally pos-......
The Creation And Physical Structure Of The Earth. By J.
T. Harrison. (Longmans.)—Mr. Harrison's essay on the physical structure of the earth is most readable and, we may say, instructive, for he has distinctly added to the progress......
Norman Reid, M.a. By Jessie Patrick Findlay. (oliphant,...
Ferrier.)—Mr. Norman Reid is the minister of -" Free St. John's" in a Scotch town. Here he has to do with a self-sufficient, purse-proud elder, who has been accustomed to have......
The Story Of A Spring Morning. By Mrs. Molesworth. (long-
mans )—Mrs. Molesworth tells in that attractive way with which all her readers are BO well acquainted, of the troubles which .certain perverse children bring about, and of the......
A Girl Of The People. By L. T. Meade. (methuen.)—mrs.
Meade's heroine is a Liverpool flower-girl, and is drawn with more than her usual vigour. She promises her dying mother to keep her little twin-brothers from harm, and the story......
Not His Own Master. By Mrs. Lucas Shadwell. (religious Tract
Society.)—The adventures of a somewhat harshly treated son who eventually heaps coals of fire on his father's head, form the material for this tale, which is perhaps up to the......
So Heri ; Or, "a Cycle Of Cathay." By Jessie
Weston. (Eden, Remington, and Co.)—The writer has depicted with some force the story of a half-caste, a New Zealand half-caste, and how the Maori blood eventually triumphed over......
The Age Of Chivalry. By Philip H. Johnstone. (marcus Ward
and Co.)—Mr. Johnstone puts in a new shape matter that will be familiar to many readers. An introduction on chivalry in general, a chapter on "The Feudal Period," and another on......
The Mysterious Stranger. By C. H. Thorburn. (digby And
Long.)—It must require a certain amount of courage to publish an absurdity of this sort—courage, however, which deserves no reward. The ignorance of everything that goes to make......
A Willing Exile. By Andre Raffalovich. 2 Vole. (f. V.
White and Co.)—It is not often that a " society " novel—that is, a novel devoted entirely to describing modern society in its outward aspects, and also, in this case, its utter......
The Family Coach. By M. And C. Lee. (national Society.)—
This is a genuine child's book, not quite so common a thing as one might suppose among the multitude of volumes that profess to be written for this public. Henrietta Strangways,......
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