Foundations. By Mrs. Walter Ward. (national Society....
the beginning ; she is married at the end; in the interval she appears pretty frequently. Many other people appear also, some of them being, so to speak, irrelevant. There is......
Gift-books.
THE HOLY LAND.* WE have included this volume among " Gift-Books " for the very convincing reason that it would not be easy to find a better book to give away. But it must not be......
A School-story."
AT first sight it is difficult to understand why so few good stories of school-life should have been written. There is, indeed, only one book of the kind to which every......
The Other Boy. By Evelyn Sharp. (macmillan And Co. 4s.
6d.)—The "other boy" is a thoughtful, well-read young person who is suddenly brought into a family where the children do not appreciate these qualities at their proper value.......
Two Little Travellers. By Ray Cunningham. (t. Nelson And...
2s. 6d.)—This is a story of a kind which the grown-up reader who cannot divest himself of an unreasonable liking for the probable can hardly appreciate. If the girls for whom,......