Under A. Spell. By Ellerton Gray. Illustrated By Wallis...
(Jerrold and Sons.)—The victim of the spell is a lazy schoolboy, who falls asleep in a cornfield on the way to school. What he hears, for his ears are open to the language of......
Dr. Weedon's Waif. By K. Somers. (digby, Long, And Co.)—
The " waif " is knocked down by a hansom and nursed by the occupant of it, who turns out to be a doctor. He turns over a new leaf and becomes a page, but being robbed by his......
The Boys Of Penrohn. By Mrs. G. Forsyth Grant, (w.
P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell.)—More unreal boys than those of Mrs. Forsyth Grant we never came across. It seems to be the fashion to treat boys more and more as men, and to......
Good Words, 1893. Edited By Donald Macleod, D.d. The Sunday
Magazine. Edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Isbister and Co.)—We have always admired the good sense with which these two magazines are conducted. Between them they have done a......
The Bents Of Battersby. By M. B. Manwell, (religious Tract
Society.)—This is an excellent story of a rather conventional kind. It tells of the fortunes of two brothers, the one prosperous, but with an ill-regulated household and......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS Prince Rupert's Namesake. By Emily Weaver. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—The Staynor family have been brought very low by their loyal devotion to King Charles,......
Messrs. Partridge And Co. Have Included In Their Books...
adapted to the present season a new edition of Mr. R. M. Ballan- tyne's The Eagle Cliff. It is one of the best of this favourite author's more recent stories, being a very happy......
The Magazines.
ONE of the best papers in the December Nineteenth Century is Mr. Reginald Brett's " The Queen and her First Prime Minister." There is nothing very new in it, but the fascinating......
Home, Sweet Home. By The Rev. R. G. Somas, B.a.
(Religious Tract Society.)—Here, with a rather catchpenny title, we have a story which is the reverse of catchpenny. It is a careful study of still-life and of two families, the......
Two Little Children And Ching.' By Edith E. Cuthell....
—Children who are fond of animals will enjoy the story of the two children and their inseparable companion, the little Chinese dog, the troubles that ensue from the dog's......
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