Mr. Fisher Unwin's Colonial Library includes every variety of fiction from the drawing-room comedies of John Oliver Hobbes to the tense and passionate realisations of tropical life by Mr. Joseph Conrad. The forty-second number of this series of novels which is about to be published is Moonlight, by Mrs, Mary E. Mann, the popular author of the Cedar Star and other novels. It describes life in a country emporium and the love affairs of a semi-orphaned shop girl. There is a naught ty parrot in the story who has learned to say "D—n the girl!" but she is really a charming heroine with two lovers.
What are Whiddles? Legends we suppose. Anyhow Mr, Fisher Unwin will issue shortly a book entitled Cornish Whiddles for Teenin Time. One of the Whiddles "is called "The Sea Mist." Giants, witches, pixies, "nd_ mermaids figure in them: Mrs. Frank Morris is the author and it would seem that she listened to the telling of " Whiddles" when she was a child. Her book is illustrated by Mr. Archibald R. Nicholson, The Author of the over-delightful Uncle Remus lias written some Tales of the Home Folk in Peace and War which Mr. 't, Fisher Unwin will publish ere long. In this work Mr. Joel Chandler Hatris has almost given up writing in a dialect. The tales concern a great many varieties of human beings. Their locality is the Southern States.
Few people realise what it means to be eighty years old. It means that you may have known Shelley, Keats, Byron, and people that have passed into classics and legends. It means that lost history has been enacted under your eyes. It means that you have become mysterious, and in sense a monopolist of the past. Hence much interest attaches to the publication of Eighty Years and More, the reminiscent ces of Mrs. Elizabeth' Cady Stanton. These extend from Waterloo to the Diamond Jubilee. She is a great figure in the forward movement for women and author of a History of Woman's Suffrage. Both in England and America she has seen much, and names like Shelley, Browning, Whittier, Garrison, General Grant, ete., throng her' pages. Mr. 'T. Fisher' Unwin will publish this work. often wearisome to read of places we have never seen, but about two countries, Egypt and Palestine, our dreams have 80 often revolved that we have become gradually familiar with them and could almost find our way about them. In The City of the Caliphs, which Mr. Fisher Unwin will presently issue, Mr. Cairo and its environs and the Kile and Eustace Ball has written a monograph on
its monuments. To his text, which is very full are added twenty photogravures, The latter give us a sight of the real, battered, desert Sphinx, impassive and wonderful and far less sleek than the well-nourished Sphinges which are placed round Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment.
The "Children's Library" was one of Fisher Unwin's most applauded ventures.
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