The Revolution Amongst The Flowers. By Florence Byng. (t....
Unwin.)—This is an amusing fantasy. A little girl has various curious notions about her flowers, whom, indeed, she treats as if they were her friends. One year they take it into......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. The Dingo Boys. By G. Manville Fenn. (W. and R. Chambers.) —This is a spirited story. Captain Bedford, a retired officer of Engineers, takes his family to Australia,......
Punch: The Autobiography Of A Fox-terrier. Compiled By...
Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—This is a collection of good dog- stories, together with supposed reflections on the p at of the uaimal woich are not quite so good. We take it for......
Told After Tea. By M. And C. Lee. (griffith, Farran,
and Co.) —Here we have a story within a story, an arrangement skilfully contrived and carried out. Little Kitty celebrates her birthday, which his turned out wet, in a way that......
Stories. By Ascott R. Hope. (a. And C. Black.)—the Author
has coll cted from his various books thirteen stories, all of them well worth repeating. The longest of them is called " The Burning of the Whius," from a volume entitled " The......
Half-brothers. By Hestia Stratton. (religious Tract...
uncommonly powerful story. We have seldom seen a tale in which the truth that a man shall reap as he has sown is worked out more effectively, and, at the same time, with less......
A Tale By Mr. Manville Fenn.*
WE do not know whether Mr. Fenn has ever gone sporting or botanising up a tropical river, but he certainly writes as if he had. It would not, indeed, be easy to find a more......
Two Historical Books.*
THE reverse of the Queen's Gold Medals at Winchester College bear, underneath a representation of William of Wykeham's chauntry-tomb in Winchester Cathedral, the inscription "......
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