There Was Once A Prince. By M. E. Mann. (henry
and Co.) —Herein we have described a remarkable friendship which springs up between a young man, whose days are supposed to be num- bered, and a wild, untutored farmer's......
False Pretences. By Annie Thomas. (digby And Long.)—the...
False Pretences applies alike to the hypocritical friendship of one personage, the false position of others who are under the erroneous impression that they are married, and the......
Our Holidays. By The Countess Howe. (d. Douglas.)—the...
Our Holidays conceives the brilliant idea of en- livening the tedious convalescence from illness by writing an account of her holidays. Then she proceeds to describe them,— how......
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......
Far From Home. By Robert Overton. (jerrold And Sons.)—...
Carrington's adventures make up a tale of the good old stirring type. He runs away from home, then acts the part of a stowaway and saves the ship, luckily for himself, and the......
The Sign Of The Snake. By Brownlow Fforde. (a. H.
Wheeler and Co.)—We like Mr. Fforde better when he is reproducing the humours of Anglo-Indian life than when, as here, he tries to beat the writers of blood-curdling romances on......
In The Series Of The " Gentleman's Magazine Library"...
Stock) we have the sixth volume of Topography, edited by F. A. Milne. It contains the two counties of Kent and Lancashire; the former of the two fills more than two hundred and......
Stories Of Long Ago. By Ascott H. Hope. (sampson Low
and Co.)—Many of these stories, though known to students and of historical importance, are unknown to most readers. They are of that charming variety known as historical......
On The Threshold. By Isabella 0. Ford. (edward Arnold.)—...
is a fairly successful novel with a purpose, perhaps because the writer, though she is very much in earnest, has a certain amount of humour which enables her at all events to......
My New Home. By Mrs. Molesworth. (macmillan And Co.)— Mrs.
Molesworth gives us a very pleasing and truthful picture of the life of a little girl and her grandmother. Helena discovers herself to be spoilt when her grandmother goes to......
The Long Arm, By Mary E. Wilkins; And Other Detective
Stories by other Writers. (Chapman and Hall.)—Although we have had of late perhaps a trifle too much of " detectivism " in fiction, and a new volume containing nothing but "......
Some Wordsworth Finds? Arranged And Introduced By James...
Gray's Inn Road.)—Mr. Medborough tells how he found a copy of a sonnet by Wordsworth about the carving on the desk in Hawkshead School (this was at Hawkahead), how he heard some......
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