The Princess Of Hearts, By Sheila E. Braine (blackie And
Son, Os.), is an unusually successful specimen of the modern fairy. story. It is a little self-conscious, so to speak. The genuine fairy-story never attempts a joke or makes an......
Miscellaneous.
Ou the whole, The Hooligan Nights (Grant Richards, 6s.) is a book which seems to us to ring true. At least we have no difficulty in believing Mr. Clarence Rook when he assures......
—these Illustrations To Nursery Rhymes Were First Cut Out Of
white paper, and the details added with a stiletto. They are now reproduced in white on dark plum coloured paper, with very good effect. Some of the drawings are in dark on a......
Britain's Prince And Princess. By Thomas Paul. (j. F. Shaw
and Co. 6s.)—This volume gives the story, illustrated with drawings that go back to quite early days, of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Such books do not profess to be......
This One Is Not Equal In Bulk To Some, But
it is of good liierary quality, particularly well printed and handsomely illustrated. Mr. Guy Boothby's serial story, "A Maker of Nations," runs through the volume. Fiction,......
In The Young Master Of Hyson Hall (chatto And Windus,
Ss. 6d.) Mr. Frank R. Stockton is, of course, entertaining. The people who figure in the story have more than a shade of oddness about them, and there is a mysterious......
The Stranding Of The White Rose.' By C. Dudley Lampers.
(S.P.C.K. 2s.)—Frederic Cornwallis, unable to earn his living at a desk—no wonder, seeing that he could scarcely add up a column of figures—finds a congenial employment in a......
Mignenne. By Jennie Chappell. (blackie And Son. 2s.)—...
a curious child, with the classes into which she puts her dolls and other belongings, and she has a very curious fate. There are some score of recorded instances in which an......
The Elephant's Apology. By Alice Talwin Morris. (blackie...
2s. 6d.)—The elephant is the prominent member of Mr. Barnes's travelling menagerie. Carried away by his passion for toffee, he snatches a bit from the hand of a spectator, and......
Twenty.siz Ideal Stories For Girls. (hutchinson And Co....
is an excellent and varied collection of stories, the great majority, if not all, of which have already done duty in magazines, by such well-known writers for girls as Ellen......
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