In A Strange Land. By "ursula." (parker And Co.)---there Is
something in this story that reminds us of Charles Dickens's Christmas books. Elsie goes into fairy-land and sees, by fairy help, a number of mirrors of human life. The book is......
Trying To Find Europe. By " Jimmy Brown." Edited By W.
L. Alden. (Sampson Low and Co.) —" Jimmy Brown " is of the type of the " bad boy " of American fiction, the sort of boy into which children of the " Helen's Babies " kind may be......
Adventures Of Johnny Pascoe. By G. Norway. (nisbet.)—this...
very gracefully and skilfully told story of the reclamation to civilisation of a little orphan boy, the child of a dissolute tramp. There is genuine power in the opening......
Miss Meredith. By Amy Levy. (hodder And Stoughton.)— This...
the work of a skilful pen, a conclusion at which the present writer arrived before he had noticed that it came from the hand that wrote "A Minor Poet " and "Reuben Sachs." Elsie......
Stories Jolly, Stories New, Stories Strange, And Stories...
(Skeffington.)—Perhaps there is no such thing as novelty in gift- books; otherwise we should have said that the idea which has been worked out in this book, as in others issued......
Books Of Reference In The Reading - Room Of The British...
(Printed by Order of the Trustees.)—As this is a third edition, it is scarcely needful to do more than draw the attention of students to the fact that this useful work has been......
The Post - Office London Directory For 1890. The Ninety...
(Kelly and Co.) —Ono substantial proof of the growth in bulk, and consequently completeness in contents of this Directory, is the fact that the present volume contains 142 more......
Dora's Dolls' House. By The Hon. Mrs. Greene....
an almost painfully close study of a little girl whom it takes a great deal of time and trouble to discipline into that negative unselfishness which means abstinence from......
Daddy Jake, The Runaway, And Other Stories. By Joel Chandler
Harris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a handsome volume, but then the contents are not of the average gift-book sort. The principal story is admirable. " Daddy Jake" is a Negro......
The Story Of Father Damien. By Frances E. Cooke. (sonnen-
schein.)—The authoress of this new version of the pathetic story of the heroic Joseph de Veuster has not, and does not pretend to have, anything fresh to say. She carefully read......
Edward Thring, Teacher And Poet. By H. D. Rawnsley. (t.
Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Rawnsley read part of this little volume as a paper before the Birmingham Association of School-Teachers, and has now published it at their request, adding a......
Publications Of The W Eek.
Andersen's Fairy-Tales, illustrated by Bertall, er 8vo (Heywood) 20 Broadbent (W. H.), The Nils-, l2mo (Cassell & Co) 00 Brsoksmitn (J.), Arithmetic for Beginners, 12mo en) 1/6......
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