The Cruise Of The Crystal Boat. By Gordon Stables. (lutchin-
son.)—A great deal of labour has been bestowed upon this book, and there is even a considerable amount of ability in it. But, in its main characteristics, it does not recall the......
Dan's Little Girl. By Jessie Armstrong. (religious Tract...
an exceptionally strong story of the moral assistance given to a young fisherman by a little girl-cousin who is almost literally thrown on his hands. Dan Carter, who is saved......
Mistress Phil. By Mary H. Debenham. (national Society's...
an excellent historical—or, at least, half- historical—novel of the kind that forms a good gift-book of the higher order. The heroine, Mistress Phil, is one of those charming......
The Orphans Of Merton Hall. By Emily Brodie. (religious...
Society.)—This is openly, and from beginning to end, a reli- gious story, an attempt to prove that no life—not even domestic life—can be happy into which "love of God" does not......
John Tincroft, Bachelor And Benedick. By George E....
Tract Society.)—There is a fine leisurely air about this story which reminds us somehow of the way in which the writers of fiction a century ago were accustomed to amuse their......
A New Broom. By Ellen Louisa Davis. (religious Tract...
—It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that the "new broom" who figures in this story is a clergyman. Ernest Wootton is his name, and he makes his appearance on the scene thus......
Little Que,enie. By Emma Marshall. (j. F. Shaw And Co.)—
A solitary child—this seems a favourite situation for writers of children's stories just now—is the theme of this tale. The pity of children is easily aroused for such hard......
Cecil, The Boy Who Stood Between. By M. M. Butler.
(J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Cecil, the little hero of this story, has been com- manded by his dying grandfather to repair a wrong, but what the wrong is, he is not told. He is left......
A Pinch Of Experience. By L. B. Walford. (methuen.)—mrs....
story is, as we should expect, clever enough, but there is not much in it, and it is certainly not agreeable reading. When we compare it with so charming a story as "A Sage of......
New Editions And Reprint8.—bolvinson Crusoe. With Illus-...
Paget. (Cassell and Co.)—Of the many editions of the "Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe " which have been published since the first ap- pearance of the......
The Church And The King. By Evelyn Everett-green. (t. Nelson
and Sons.)—This is a very elaborate story of love, intrigue, monastic life, and religious disturbances in the time of Henry VIII., and may, on the whole, be described as, for a......
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