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They Mostly Need Very Few Actors, And No Scenery Or

costume beyond what can be easily managed in most homes." At the same time, he has provided the opportunity for making thesis more elaborate, if circumstances should permit.......

Cutlass And Cudgel. By G. Manville Fenn. (griffith,...

and Welsh.)—This is not quite so ambitious a story as some that Mr. Manville Fenn has written, and perhaps it would be using language of exaggerated eulogy to describe it as a......

The .baronets And Their Brides. By William Matthew Cox....

aim of the author of this work, who is a Yorkshire clergyman, is an excellent one ; it is, indeed, a good deal better than his performance. It is "to take a humble part with......

Bits About Horses For Every Day. Selected And Illustrated By

S. Turner. (F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Turner, by the exercise of much industry and ingenuity, has collected so many quotations of all kinds about horses as to furnish a motto for......

Told By The Fireside. Stories By Mrs. Molesworth And Others.

(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The " others " include a most dis- tinguished company of writers for the young. Mrs Emma Marshall, Mrs. L. T. Meade, G. Manville Fenn, and Edward......

The Doyle Fairy - Book. (dean And Son.)---the Contents Of...

will probably be known to most of our readers. But we may remind them that the familiar "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "The White Cat," and the like are not among them. The stories......

The Annual Volume Of The Magazine Of Art (cassell And

Co.) has many attractions, literary as well ae artistic. The principal pictures are twelve photogravures or etchings. It would not be easy to pick out from these the best, but......

The Spoilt Twins. By Emily Dibdin. (nisbet.)—this Is A Story

the moral of which is to all intents and purposes conveyed by the title. The only fault to be found with the story is its length. The " spoilt twins," Eric and Hilda, who have......

We Have Received The Annual Volumes Of The Leisure Hour

and the Sunday at Home. (Religious Tract Society.)—The chief serial tale of the Leisure Hour is " Senior and Junior," by Leslie Keith. This has been running through the whole......