The Leisure Hour. (r.t.s.)—we Have In This Year's Leisure...
five serial stories, which are perhaps an improvement on two long ones. One is historical, a tale of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein, and another is a tale of the......
Miss Secretary Ethel. By Ellinor Davenport Adams. (hurst...
we are told, is "a story for girls of to day," and a very good story it is. Miss Davenport Adams has some- thing distinctive to say, a thing not often to be found in books of......
The Boys Of Huntingley. By K. M. Eady And Il
Eady. (Andrew Melrose.)—This "Public School Story" is good of its kind. To draw a boy who shall neither be melodramatic nor priggish is not easy. The special moral of the story......
Soldiers Of The Queen. By Harold Avery. (nelson And Sons.)—
This "Story of the Dash to Khartoum" is a skilful combination of varied interests. The campaigning is well told, and the private fortunes of the two heroes, one of them a......
The White Witch Of The Mata.bele. By Fred Whishaw....
Ferran, and Co.)—The "White Witch " — " witch" is used, in Old English fashion, of a male—was certainly a wonderful person. Kidnapped at the age of two and a half, he did not......
Poems Of The Love And Pride Of England. Edited By
F. and M. Wedmore. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—Of all the books that we have included under the heading of "Gift-Books" there is not one which it should be as great a pleasure to give......
The Sunday At Home. (r.t.s.)—two Serial Stories By...
and Mrs. E. E. Green represent fiction in this year's volume. Descriptive papers on Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Chichester, Wells Cathedral, El-Azhar Mosque of Cairo. the Buddhas......
In The Choir Of Westminster Abbey. By Emma Marshall. (seeley
and Co.)—This is a story of the days of Henry Purcell, whose eager and intense face, as Sir Godfrey Kneller pictured it, fur- nishes the frontispiece. Mrs. Marshall has worked......
Parson Prince. By Florence Moore. (bemrose And Sons.)—...
has our sympathies when she holds up Parson Prince to our admiration. Still, we cannot help suggesting that she makes him accomplish too many successes. One or two reforma-......
The Knights Of Rose - Mullion. By Esmil Stuart. (national...
whole, this story is cleverly managed. Ivo Palmer is a very romantic lad who finds himself exactly in his element when he is transported, with the rest of his family, to the old......
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