Predecessors, Except, Perhaps, In The Fact That There Is...
a slightly-increased difficulty in finding sufficient celebrities. When it suits to caricature a man, he is caricatured ; when it suits to give him some such face and figure as......
Mabel In Rhymeland. By Edward Holland. (griffith, Ferran,...
is a book of the "Alice in Worderland" kind. Mabel, the heroine, meets with the personages of various nursery-rhymes,—with the " Man in the Moon, who came down too soon, to ask......
A Christmas Garland : Carols And Poems. Edited By A.
H. Batten. (John C. Nimuto.)—Mr. Batten divides his "Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time" into three parts, " Christmas Chants and Carols," " Carmine......
Great Porter Square: A Mystery. By B. L. Farjeon. (ward
and Downey.)—There are still stories to tell, Mr. Farjeon seems to think, and his readers will probably agree with him. That the tale of the murder in "Great Porter Square"......
Annuals, Erc.—a Number Of Annuals, Christmas Numbers,...
a notice which, under the present pressure of time and space, can be little more than an enumeration. The precedence may fairly be allowed to Peter Parley's Annual (Ben George),......
Careful Study Than It Has Hitherto Received. Those Who Read
it with the most care and comprehension have commonly but little sympathy with this side of the subject. We are, therefore, the more obliged to Mr. Masson for this excellent......
The Book-buyer (charles Scribner's Sons) Will Tell Any...
is being done for the young folk at this time on the other side of the Atlantic. •......
A Pretty Little Book Of Text, Illustrated With Borderings Of
leaves and flowers, is The Beauty of the King, by " F. M. 11." (James Hawkins.)......
Of The Contents Will Further High-thinking,' And Be A Help
to some in the varied and often rugged path of life." We believe that that hope will be fulfilled. There is a good deal of originality and taste dis-......
Cotton-spinning. By Richard Marsden. (bell And...
in which we have a short record of cotton- spinning in the past, followed by a second which describes the principal varieties of the cotton-plant, as it is grown in various......
Comic Sketches From English History, By...
(W. H. Allen), are good in their way, being really quaint, as well as well-drawn, but it is a way of which we cannot honestly approve.......
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