Marcia's Home. (wells Gardner, Darton, And Co.)—marcia Is...
sent home to kinsfolk 'by parents in India. The story tells how her patience, goodness, and unselfishness work a change in the family of which she becomes a part. Possibly the......
Fort Frayne. By Captain C. King, U.s.a. (ward And Lock.)
1--Captain King evidently knows Indian warfare, for he has given us a wonderfully vivid and picturesque description of the alarms and hardships of a battalion stationed in some......
Into Untried Paths. By Isabel Stuart Robson....
pleasant story that runs on very familiar lines. Margot Dimont a spirited girl endowed with much force of character, is -compelled by pecuniary "family misfortunes" to take the......
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GIFT-BOOKS. Born to be a Sailor. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol )—Here Dr. Gordon • Stables gives us a lively story—with, perhaps, too many digressions in......
The Marble City. By R. D. Chetwode. (sampson Low, Marston,
and Co.)—There is no doubt whatever that there is plenty of adventure in this book; on every second page there is a mutiny or a shipwreck, or a fight with savages, or a......
Snowbird And The Water-tiger. By Margaret Compton....
book makes a new and delightful departure in fairy-tales. It is an attempt, based, as the author tells us, on "Government reports of Indian life," and " the folk-lore contained......
The ,phantoms Of The Donee. By Brownlow Fforde. (a. H.
Wheeler and Co.)—This is one of the brightest and most humorous stories that have yet been published by a writer who has shown such an intimate knowledge of Anglo-Indian life......
Planter Jack. By G. Manville Fenn. (8.p.c.k.)—this Is A,...
story of planter life in Ceylon in the days before the island had been as much settled as it is now, and the improve- ments of roads, &c., had only begun. To Mr. Grantley, who......
The Artist Of Crooked Alley. By Audley Curtis. (national...
Green is a weakly little boy, nine years old, but looking five, who lives with a crippled mother in Crooked Alley, and conceives the happy idea of making a livelihood out of......
Master Wilberforce. By " Rita." (hutchinson.) — " Rita "...
this story, which is described as " A Study of a Boy," to "the Boy," a creature whom she considers to have been misrepre• seated by " historians and romancists." Master......
The Bachelor's Christmas, And Other Stories. By Robert...
Low, Marston, and Co.)—There is a delightful old- English flavour about the majority of these stories, and that in spite of the fact that they are exclusively American. One or......
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