China Cup. By Felix Volkhovsky. With Illustrations. (t....
are seven beautiful little stories in this small volume—folk-tales, at least of the nature of folk-tales more than fairy-stories—and children will be delighted with them. They......
Messrs. Griffith, Farran, And Co. Send Us The...
with a variety of outlines which children are to practise themselves in colouring. Some are of the very simplest, even rudest kind ; others more advanced.—We have also from the......
The Roll-call, And Other Stories. By Lucy Henry. (digby And
Long.)—This is a little volume of stories, mostly true, we fancy, or at least founded on truth, which ought to interest children, and "grown-ups" too, for that matter.......
Italian Explorers In Africa. By Sofia Bompiani....
volume contains a series of papers which originally appeared in the Leisure Hour. (It is the third of a series entitled "The Leisure Hour Library.") Few of the names will be......
The Rajah Of Dah. By George Manville Fenn. (w. And
R. Chambers.)—Mr. Fenn lays the scene of his story in the Malayan Peninsula. Johnstone Murray, a gentleman of fortune, whose hobby is natural history, goes with his nephew on a......
We Have Received From Messrs. Dean And Son A Number
of children's picture-books of various kinds, all copiously illustrated, and, for the most part, in excellent taste. It is only fair to observe how much the average of the......
In Nelson's Days. By George Hewett. ( Wells Gardner, Darton,
and Co.)—Mr. Hewett tells in these pages a spirited little story of naval adventure. Joe Mathers is a youngster belonging to a seafaring family whom his mother had somehow......
From Messrs. Routledge We Have The Pet Animals...
other pictures, of games, &e a very fairly coloured indeed.......
We Have Received From Messrs. Hildesheimer And Faulkner A •
collection of Christmas Cards, single, or in sets of two or three. Among them are many pretty designs, landscapes, flowers, figures ; and some humorous, comic men and comic......
From Messrs. Shaw We Have Two Handsome Illustrated...
with readable matter giving descriptions of the ways of animals in their wild state and in captivity,—Hunters and Hunted, and The Forest and the Field. Both have drawings by Mr.......
Great-grandmantma ; And Elsie. By Georgina M. Synge....
Co.)—In this volume we have two children's stories. The heroine of the first is a little Lady Betty, and the hero, if he may be so called, a scapegrace cousin, who is,......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. Lilian and Lai. By the Author of "Mademoiselle Mori." (A. D. Innes and Co.)—The Squire of //war disinherits his son on account of an imprudent marriage. The younger......
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