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Messrs. Cassell & Co. (Limited).
presents of sea life These , which are should On Board prove tlie hig Esmeralda hly enjoyabl , b e y J to ohn all C . nauticall Hutcheson y- disposed an excellen youngsters t sfcorv *
Johnston In Qtiest , of in Gold which , b the y Alf character red St . jud of ged the book from the may title fairly well be
; ¦ Queen ^^ ± . _ _ - _ and _ _¦» Klngr ^ M ^ M , an 1 historical . _ romaribe romance by oy Henry xienry jFrith ? ritn , which whirli
treats of the times of plo , ts and ' prentices . The engravings in
these XI W . H . volumes Overend 1 are Gordon desi 1 gned by , Browne
and Frank Dadd , respectively . There are also three further works
- — — — - — — > > v ^ - * , m . % frj which come little , if anything , short in attractive interest of the fore-• ^ ^ "m ^ m
going volumes , thoug . h , being more soberly bound , they are probably less likely to catch the eye of — — the
4 / ^ j v **^ r imaginative . Adam Hepburn ' s Vow is a story by Anne S . Swan in which the authoress makes very ,
effective use of the disquieting conflicts of kirk and covenant ; in Wo . XIZX . Emma Marshall invests
with rnuch interest her story of the lost Vestal , missing from among the statues in the Roman Forum ; and the concluding volume , by Thomas
Archer , relates with great iorce By Fire and- Sword , a tale or the Huguenots . . Like the above , these stories , as Christmas presents , should be in great demand . SLlngr Solomon ' s Minesby H . Rider Haggarddepicts the search of one Sir Henry Curtis
— ' , «/ OO , •/ for his missir . ^ brother , who is supposed to have gone t <& King Solomon ' s Mines , in Kukuanathe land author . His with quest a is power attended of expression by the most that sensational testifies very and hi exciting ghly to of his adventures literary skill , narrated . ' Kin by g
Solomon ' s Mines' is indeed a most absorbing volume , infinitely superior in construction to the majority of stories we have recently read , and it should be eagerly perused by old and
young alike . The Xiittle , I > oingfc ^ -s of Some — Xrtttl — — e ~ Folks — — , by i / Chatty ^/ Cheerful , is a very f i livel — y •/ and lovely
little volume for very young people . The blitheness of its stories , and the abundance of its fascinating pictures , will make the work a favourite w'herever it goes . The new volume of lalttle Folks needs onla word by way of reminding our readers of
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everyappear y to hav , e alighted very upon the proper writers in this instance . Pop fortune , and Glory * a expeditions story of the whose Soudan futilit War , and by Lewis disasters Houg are h , is still a most in the opportune memories tal even e of the of i the unfortunate boys ~ - ~ - of
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bridge brifFcrfi Symington e . M M T . . A . .. Other Madeline Madeline ' volumes "Bonavia Bonavia are . Hunt written Hunt e , g an and by d the the George Kev "Rev . . Weatherly JJoaftrxh osopii , JJohnson onnaon the Rev . . . Jliacii Each Frederick book dook is *» kaogj W ^^* «
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 7, 1885, page 1266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_07121885/page/6/
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