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of many of the leading
'have -been Jmabl~d '
to devote ooe of our illustrated
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for,_severaLw.eeks in reviewing .some of.
athactive Ijift Books
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groeatcip.!1-J/Jl:isJling hou~e8 . ,We .need h(frdly remind
r~a,del'8' that
p~esents
are"8o much apprecIated 118 books! and
it has been our pleasure to re"iew
be procured through
any' of the Re':diDl(b~ok8ellllrs lit the
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land a.re at wp.r j 'upc;m wrueh Max Hflli,'er.
· t he son of a promino'nt citizen in
port, whose house, by the wu.y , .,fnces the
sea. and ha.s a slender tl~post on . the
lawn, resigns '~ Iris memb61'ship of the'"
Scouts and with fury anno~ces what tho
Kaiser's ' legions are about
do -to E,nghind and her vauntec:i' ]lJa-vy Followadventur.es on land and sea, in whioh :a.£a.rk
,Redisham, one of the I~H'mg scouts J a.nd
his brother 'Rodne}"J a. -~d.§liiEmanJ take
lUl active, and ris.ky par't , .Ia.nd~ do much
sujt and service for their country,
On

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Harry

C?IIlIn .....ta. By ,
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.(1/-. net. Wan!., Lock.)
Thi. i. ODe of ~heJLittl,elwonder, Book'J
pl04sing . volumes or th~ !f?rY~. yoUng.
'fhere •are thirteoo oth.rat--au as brigh
'and. satisfjing to the kiddi... Jim' and
'1~ JabJs ' adventures
delight th089 who /
'. have never heard, of Goblin Town aDd all
the stranee a.nd wonderful tbinge tlmt
l I happensd ID ,;.: The coloured illustratiOOl'
, .l I ' -no fewer than thi,rty~r6 a.n excellent
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Oxford'· and
End Farm,
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Medal.
Miss.
t-..:ice wounded.

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gILd to t:,enew the acquaintanco
Australian friends fro m Billa.bong
last year r' The present

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t.hese little volumes occupy ba.rdJy '
,ny 8Pace, in with other thin'g8, in the
stbcking which is . looked fo {80 eagerly on

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Jim and liis friend Wally
;?:~~~f,:r.'~n~~~ in Flanders, where they
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ture annual for boys anQ. g ,rIs, a. f8scinat- .

ing gathering of tel..

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sk. tch8l\ and

torteS with no fewer than twelve bea.ntiful

coloured plates and hundrsd s ' of other
' jllustrations. ERell year I, tho Wonder
"Book outvies its predecesSOT8 in the fea.Bt
of mirth a nd colour · it ' lays before its

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' young' .readers. , We wond~
, when- going
through this ga.laxy of ' g
,thing,s each
Yuletide, what some of the poor littlo fdlk
in sluinland would think ifltheY q.wok:", on
ehristmas morn to find II side th~'l' the
'glowing pages 01 ·tl,is pop I~r
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; may ' he that _it reaches
few of the<e
little unfortJ.
~' nfl.tes, bu~' \~ at gladness ,of
heart there auld be If It l"'88.Ched many
more. ' AII
e ,ver~8 a.nd j jes~s tha~ the
younger fry so eaSIly -n.nd 60 charmmgly

annual.

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more 10vaNe tllaon ever .•

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bov who ' likes 'adventures on
p,n'd sea ~~~ res ,(or preferis' just the
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TiII*mE:NTH YEAR ,oF ISSUE . •

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Bradfield, who. has gained

net, :Handsome Qloth Gilt., 4/ - net.
264 · PaiM', - 300 DJustrations.
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this ..fav~rite An~ual tho
boon ~ prCtlCDt. for t he dc.hght a.nd

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little

&tory.

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PLA'.{IES arc all dainty works

73, Catherine

lull-p",ge ,a.nd ot.bcr tinted dra.winge in
'f HREE HUNDRED, ,making
...,,;;a~;:;;,,~ 6umptuoU6 gift-book for clrildren
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tions, in colour that .~~t.~~ln~
Tarmnt has indeed i,
classic with n .daiuty
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vblume, each 011e a. ,
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Gnr, JESSE ANDREWS, R.F.A., 80,
Whitley Street, Reading.-Gassed.

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SWEETZER, Meoh.n; •• 1
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Fourtee.n !_'
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lovel This' b -a. nd somc
he..oo- volume is not ruCre.ly
a piet~re book , Of 8
:bC~}lth.~;;__; how
tellothey
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they w~rk, natural
book,
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DOWDEN SWEETZER,
. 1st glass stoker, H.M:S.
Hampshire,.
,Lost at fea,
Aged 24.

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for Child~~n.

48 Colo~J1ld Pla.te.j by
W, TARR,ANT. ' Ss. 6d. net,

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CARROLL'8 1unmorlal maat.er~
arl.iat 60 5Ucce86Cully oonoeived
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childts point of -view, or kh-en
«! the sly humour and mook

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FavOUrite Rhymes and Jingles,
OVER 4DO PIECES,'

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, the, model of a cook, llad pract;icaJ ~doo8
about the drudgerY and Jla:rd lot of Ger.
man women in thi Fntherla.nd, but who
refu~ to serve 1l.,P the looffee to some l
riflemen who sho averred were ~ing to
shoot' the Kaiser ;~
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dear little Dee, with

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her ' pleltaant arid fprecOcious" tattle, who
would not kiss f.he patients beca.use she
might . catch their j. Z6eses
thore is Ian
a.nd his. chum, ' w11:o tried to p?i9Oll the
DMhsbund because he "w¥ t1:ie , property .
of a natUFalised: <perma.n; there is ' Ger· trod, who came from Germany, who w.as

puuled YOUDS houeekeep&., and
wark1ng df u,. domeOtric
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o'Daunt, who . had , fought the Turk

G.lJipoli and had

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• i> happy band of duldrenL..the son, and
t daughters of 'Dr. l?aunt J a. Colonial prac-.
titio~er, ./ a.~ some. of his friends and

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Ethel Turnor,~'bo hn~ won! a. ! wid,e
'. popularity \vith h ,stories of Australian
child life, is at ,h best ~ this bef la-t est

TALES.

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Church to-morrow and JMondar, has been labouring for
some I ye&rs in the dilitn.ct of Hunan, which t has an

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VlSlte:d tqe capItal Changsh, - And' also Yochou,
Slangf:a.~ and Chan~. F~ many ' years after tlJA~ it
W&8 Closed to aU mllBlon&rtes and traders' alike. 1
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'January, 1902, th'l Rev. E. O. Cl<loper and the Rev Lo
Yu Sha/l, (1\, Hunan.... OOIlvert in Hupeh) were "ppo~ted .

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an interosting tale that ,should make ' a
bold ..bid , '" ,. a Spl.ndid Ohristmas aift. '
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book i. well

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Th. 'race IS Ohm.....
. and. the fangnage Manuarin Ohineoe. In 1863 the Rev.
Jo~ulil Cox, of, the Wesleyan Missionary S6Ci.ty be\ca.me ,t!»-e. pioneer of ~, the. mi~onary~ "eociotiea 'wb,en

wounds and honout ~ All th~ folk an'd'
88veral more the' author b.a,s WOVeD into

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THE '.~ER. 'BO~K.

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Berks

) C,S.M. WAITE, Royal
Regt.,
Bi.nfi. f '~ Park l
Bratknell.-Awarded I

board ' destroy,ers' in. action.... Ic1earing mi~e­
fields, 8earCb in~ .pjgG9n-lol"t~ in SllSpected
quarters, shootmg a. c.tl.l)fier with ' an oiled
message "?n tho' leg, in..1 lfH;bI'Drn.rines"n.nd" aircraftl these ,two _young c1ea.n-heatted Eng- ,
lish DayS ha.ve the ti~ of their 'lives.' fn
fnct the wholel"PIlJlonimo. of , modern war- '
, fa.re is here spread ' for the boy whose
blood is ' [summoned up wlien blows the
blast of .wa.r.
Every ' adventurous ,lad
• should read this tale, for f'r om it he ,viII
1~I'.n " something of ~ern r iso1ve ~n'd di s.Clplme n.nd nt the saore tlme .make 'the
acquaintance of n really able piece of
literary craftsma.nship,
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AlIce ~ s · Adventuros l~ Wonderlo:nd.
' D."
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.' Vholl Lewis Can'oll wrote his immol'tnl
masterpiooe he lIttle guess",! that' he wa,
giving something to poster~ty that in the I
hands of c~.er folk nnd l with the ai<J, of a.
mod ern pr~B would com'e to he Ja f re.sp l end~t · ~iftr I }"'Ol' delightful as a.re1 the l
whimsicalitIes of the stra.nge company
wif}~ w'hom Alice I foregathers ; t heir ndven-r
t~res would not] bo n~rly
roal ,nnd fas-

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'file Wondtl' iOOk. Editsd h]' r Harry ,
I,n GOlding. (3/- net. W:£'rd, LOf'k.) , I
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