Wo acknowledged some time ago the: receipt from Mr. John Long, publisher, of 13 and J4, Norris St., Haymarket, of
his Colonial Library. We must largo parcel of novels belonging, to cartily congratulate Mr. Long on hi wuecess in selecting books for this well-printed, red-paper-covered series. In the hundreds of novels that are published annually in London there must be of necessity on the most unexacting ingly let die; novels that will be read when Dickens and Thackeray and Scott are forgotten, but not till then, to paraphrase a well-worn witti These are the books whose unsuspecting authors a distingui ed critic used to delight by saying, Thal lose no time in reading your enthralling romance." But those who are travelling, or going up country, or buying a book to read over the fire this winter after dinner, will be almost sure to find if they sond for something from Long's Colonial Library' that the publisher has done the work of selection for them, and while Library contains novels of all kinds, historical, social, marine, detective, &e. &e. they are all good in their way, and the reader who trusts will cor unexpectedly on a thoroughly well-wri n and original book like Percival Pickering's Toy Gods," or a really remarkable effort of int tion like Gear Griffith's " A Cri Crossus." Wit! many of Mr. Long's! authors, such as J. Maclaren Cobban, L. T. Meade, Fred. Whishaw, Percy
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