The First Flight. By Mary Debenham. (national Society....
—A good tale of the days of James I., in which the characters of the time are given with considerable success. The gracious figure of Bishop Andrewes is introduced with no small......
The Romance Of Australia. Edited By Herbert Strang....
; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This volume belongs to a series entitled "The Romance of the World." Australia in the matter of romance more than holds its own, if we remember how......
Lives Of Great Men Told Hy Great Men. Edited By
Richard Wilson. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6s. net.)—We are glad to have Mr. Wilson's book, though we -do not altogether approve of his choice. Some of the men whose lives are told......
Elizabethan Adventurers Upon The Spanish Main. (adapted...
Voyages " of Richard Hakluyt.) By Albert M. Hyamson, F.R.Hist.S. (G. Routledge and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Hyamson has chosen his title wisely : the Spanish Main is still a name to......
Within A Year. By Frederick Harrison. (s.p.c.k. 3s. 6d.)—...
eventful year which Mr. Harrison has set himself to describe is one of the last of the eighteenth century. Great days those of highwaymen and smugglers, and our tale opens with......
The Chief Scout. By W. Francis Aitken. (s. W. Partridge
and Co. ls.)—The " Chief Scout" is, of course, Sir Robert riacitU- Powell ; it is his life story which Mr. Aitken tells, and verb interesting it is. About the early Indian......
The King's Story Book, The Queen's Story Book, The Prince's
Story Book, and The Princess's Story Book. Edited by Sir George Lawrence Gomme. Illustrated by John W. Campbell and W. H. Robinson. (Constable and Co. as. 6d. per volume.)—These......
The Story Of The Crusades. By E. M. Wilmot-buxton. (george
G. Harrap and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The story, as it is told here, takes in a wide range of time, for it begins with the birth of Mahomet and ends with the Fall of Constantinople. The......
Under The Wolf's Fell. By Dorothy Moore. (s. W. Partridge
and Co. 5s.)—The " Fifteen" has, we fancy, furnished far fewer romances than the " Forty-five." But that it can be made the pivot of a fascinating tale is proved in Under the......
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