Marcus, The Young Centurion, By G. Manville Fenn (e. Nister,

5s.), is a story of Caesar's wars in Gaul. It is somewhat vague and indefinite. There are battles, but one does not perceive where or how they were fought. The names, too, are......

" Beard Brigands In Their Secret Den, And Be, In

short, a hero then." "Then" is quite intolerable. When will it be understood that verse for children ought to be as good in its way as verso for " grown-ups " ? It is all the......

The Leisure Hour And The Sunday At Home (r.t.s., 7s.

61 each) are as full as usual of excellent reading. In the first, besides the story with which it opens,"In All Time of Our Wealth" (already noticed in the Spectator), we may......

New Editions.-by Pike And Dyke : A Tale Of The

Rise of the Dutch Republic, by G. A. Henty (Blackie and Son, 3s. (3d.) ; and from the same publishers : - (laptain Bayley's Heir : a Tale of the Gold Fields of California, also......

Exhibits In His Text The Different Narratives Which He...

to have been combined into the story as we have it; while in his footnotes he gives the main reasons for the discriminating process which has arrived at the result. Much of what......

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The Story Of The Inventor, Lends, Of Course, Unusual...

to the accounts of Marconi's invention and the airships of Santos-Dumont. Railways and bridges are older affairs ; much of their romance is common property ; so that Mr.......

Chr.istmas Literature For The Blind.-" The Way They Have In

the Navy" Calendar (1s. 3d.) ; "Day by Day" Monthly Readings (9d.) ; A Christmas Carol (5d.); Christmas Cards (from 1d. to 6d.) (Issued by the Editor of the Weekly Summary,......