The Story Of The Indian Mutiny. By Ascott Hope. (f.
Warne and Co.)--Mr. Hope uses his well-practised pen to good purpose in this book. He compresses into a volume of moderate compass a long story, makes a telling picture by his......
Course, It Is Cinderella Who Is The Kitchen-maid. Miss...
tells the familiar story in rhymed verse, which runs easily and smoothly enough. Some prose there is, but the greater part is verse. But as the play is meant to be acted, and......
Sootlandfar Ever. By Lieutenant-colonel Percy Groves....
is a long time before we get to Scotland in this story. The hero, when he is a boy, falls into the hands of a French privateersman, and has some very interesting adventures in......
A Venetian June. By Anna Fuller. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.)—
Miss Fuller makes us realise very thoroughly the Venetian atmo- sphere. And the place, with all its varied interests, is peopled for us by her imagination with some remarkable......
Under Many Flags. By W. H. Davenport Adams. (f. Warne
and Co.)—" Stories of Scottish Adventurers" is Mr. Davenport Adams's sub-title. Among his heroes are the Scottish soldiers who took service with the French King (best known to......
When Arnold Comes Home. By Mary E. Mann. (henry And
Co.)—Poor little Philip, with the cousin whom he wearies with his tears and childish ways, is a pathetic little figure. Miss Mann makes a very effective story out of his......
The Betrayal Of John Fordham. By B. L. Farjeon. (hutchin-
son and Co.)—If any one desires to sup full of horrors here is a chance. John Fordham marries a woman who is a drunkard. How he could have been ignorant of a vice that had......
Mania Of A Husband For The Newly Suggested Game Of
golf, and his consequent neglect of his wife, would not hold out as the subject of a volume which had to run to the conventional three hundred pages. Matter thus falling short,......
Her Father, Goes To London And Seeks To Earn Bread
for herself and her little sister by literature; the other also aims at literary success, not because she wants the money, but because she is tired of a dull life at home, and......
A First Sketch Of English History : Part Ii., 1307 - 1689.
By C. J. Matthew, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an effort, and on the whole a successful effort, to give the inner meaning of the changes and movements which seem at first......
.tudy, A Jilt. By Mrs. Conney. (jarrold And Sons.)—the Tale
is written with some spirit. The dialogue is easy and natural, and the characters show some power of drawing, though they are not, for the most part, of the quality on which......
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