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    Messrs. Cassell & Company (Limited). I

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    I Few stories that we have read of late have stirred more pleasurable interest than A . "World I M ? Gi houid rls * be by difficult L . T . Meade to improve . It is upon , of . its Above kind , every a cap thi ital ng book it is , wholesome and as a record and pure of lif , full e at of school good , ¦ Lnest writing , anddevoid

    ¦ of any sensational thing like straining clap-trap or effect , »> l "Rl •• A / I eade *^ <¦* *~ w * - *

    after . in Mr a . m M arked degree possesses j n ,, nnp the t . hft power Dower of or

    events rendering of a the school ordinary girl ' s existence interesting — ¦ -

    andhis rjAlot' - ability 'iivv ** .-. ww to — - — do , this arises from his intimate

    knowledge of her feelings , trials 7 and

    disappointv * *« - — , A . jl . ments . Perhaps the reconciliation between

    Hester Thornton and _ Annie ^ ^ »* 4 » » v Forrest - _ — . . _ — , with which - - __

    the book concludes , is scarcely sufficiently

    enlarged upon ; but this is the only fault we have to

    find , and in view of the general excellence of the storyits healthy teaching

    , , and good , honest style , it seems almost hypercritical

    to mention the matter . A better book , we repeat ,

    fur girls we have not come across for a long ¦ time

    and in our general — — - — —— J *^ ^ ^ com ^ ^^^— - ^^ - ; m mendation the beautiful •»*

    illustrations of M . Ellen Edwards ( of which we

    afford a specimen ) should certainl Like iK the y not be forgotten .

    form ^ e me of work author author she , in in is seen tthis his at her best .

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    , gan are . ¦ iu <> f the most beautiful volumes that MessrsCassell liave published is From Gold

    . i » re 5 r * This is a collection of poems and pictures of life and nature , by Mrs . Mary D .

    kl'H l ) - I knoWll " artists illustrations as William are especiall Small , G y . good L . Seymour , and are , M con . Ellen tributed Edwards , amongst , Frank others Dadd , by , E such . F . ^ tnall , Alice Havers , Mary L « . Gow , J . Nash , and Davidson Knowles . They are ^^^^ - <&

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    w ^ t - - ' ^ ¦ I pec 6 r ^ g Qn , The Publishers' Circular 1427 + * ' ^

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1886, page 1427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121886/page/19/