... THE STORY OF A LONG STORY. M FROM A ?? ENT. . , Out of every hundred people that visit Stoke | * Pogis ninety-nine are impelled thither by a wish to ...

... SHORT STORIES. « Told in the Common Room. (Skeffington and Son.) A crisply- written collection of stories, tbe greater part of them relating to members of a college, called for the notice S. ALholius. Voting for a P.ocor has the most lotal colour ...

... SHORT STORIES. Jack and Three Jills, by F. C. Philips (Griffith, Farran, and Co.) It ia difficult to say which of Mr. Philips' volatile hero's tiiree Jills will afford the most amusement to the reader. The wily Mrs. Brabazon per- vades the whole tale ...

... THE ARMENIAN STORIES. TO the editob of th_ morning post. Sis, — The two admirable letters ot yonr Correspondent st Constantinople represent the situation most accurately. They do not attempt to repeat the miserable tittle- tattle which is so prevalent ...

... THE STORY OF A 7lB/ A more pathetic tale than this Story of Avis we have not for a long while encountered. True it is American, and must be taken with all the peculiarities (some wou'.d call them drawbacks) of style and diction which mark the literary ...

... SEVEN STORIES.* lii this volume of tales the author is hardly scan at hi* lost. Mr. Hope has so completely woa for himself r. reputation as the best living exp orient of honest schoolboy life, with all its recklessness, seen. iii ...

... THE ARMENIAN STORIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir,— You will, I am well assured, be the first person to regret that the well-known hospitality with which you throw open your columns to correspondence, should have been made the means of propagating ...

... pleasant and lively style. Strange Stories is undoubtedly a very valuable contribution to Asiatic folklore, and certainly a selection of ta-e stories will be found admirably suited for children. Strange Stories frcm a Chinese Studio. Translated from ...

... THE STORY OF NUREMBERG* Like other volumes of the scries, about a. hundred -^ 9 I are devoted to a general history of tho town and ?? > j and the other two hundred serve as a descriptive j__. to the buildings and works of art, with incidental history ...

... (J. W. Arrowsmith), bj T. I. 5., is a vary pretty Venetian story, Laving foi I hero a violin-maker of far-famed Cremona. It is touching, and has gooel local colour. Fin de Sit-cle Stories, by Boyle Laurence and Herbert , Cadett. (Briggs and Co.) Somewhat ...

... certain schoolboy is said to have de- clared, Cato was a noble Roman, and subsequently died. The Stories of European States, of which The Story of Holland is the latest, are not primarily intended for the use of schools, but they are no less ...

... AN OLD STORY.* A well-known apostle of temperance, and one who bas wrought with great zeal and vigour in the admirable cause which he upholds and vindi- cates, Mr. S. C. Uail, supported by a numerous and excellent baud of artistic followers, now issues ...