=171. Beyond the Himalayas.= By JOHN GEDDIE. (Nelson) 3_s._ 6_d._ =172. Lake Regions of Central Africa.= By JOHN GEDDIE. (Nelson) 3_s._ 6_d._ =173. The Castaways in the Wilds of Borneo.= By MAYNE REID. (Nelson) 3_s._ 6_d._ =174. Frank Redcliffe.= (Nelson) 3_s._ 6_d._ Adventures in South America. =175. Mark Willis.= (Nelson) 1_s._ 6_d._ Adventures of a sailor boy. All these are interesting tales of enterprise conveying much useful geographical information, and wholesomely sound and amusing. [Illustration] DRAWING-ROOM STORIES. The stories under this head are chosen for their unusual excellence, but they deal in general with a way of life, with pursuits, allusions, and temptations, so much out of the line of the ordinary clients of the parish library that we do not recommend them for that purpose, although they would do no harm but decidedly good, so far as they were understood, and, where readers of a superior degree are included, would be excellent. =176. The Langdales of Langdale End.= By ELEANOR LLOYD. (Marcus Ward) 3_s._ 6_d._ A lively, clever set of children, slightly over-independent of their parents. They get into a scrape by secretiveness about their pleasures, and their discussions of their clergyman might not be edifying to some readers. =177. Hermy, the Story of a Little Girl.= By Mrs. MOLESWORTH. (Routledge) 2_s._ 6_d._ A pleasant nursery tale. =178. Miss Fenwick’s Failures.= By ESMÉ STUART. (Blackie) 2_s._ 6_d._ A governess’s troubles with naughty children. =179. A York and a Lancaster Rose.= By ANNIE KEARY. (Macmillan) 6_s._ One Rose is a professor’s daughter, the other is a carpenter’s. They come into connection at the soup kitchen of a Sisterhood, much to their mutual benefit. The trials of the professor’s daughter are those of a large intellectual family in a London house, where inclination often has to be silently sacrificed. =180. Laneton Parsonage.= By ELIZABETH SEWELL. (Longmans) 1_s._ The catechism illustrated practically by three periods of the lives of a clergyman’s daughters—at home, at school, and after the return from school. =181. Sweet William.= By Mrs. ERSKINE. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ 6_d._ An engaging little girl, devoted to her butterfly-hunting brothers, but waking to high and deep aspirations, which find their first fulfilment in the discovery of an old cottage woman’s lost son. =182. Grumble.= By Mrs. ERSKINE. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ The pinch of agricultural depression felt but not understood in the nursery drives a little damsel to try to mend matters by _wishing_ in a fairy ring. =183. The Birthday.= By Lady HARRIET HOWARD. (Masters) 3_s._ 6_d._ A charming set of children in high life, simple, natural, and wholesome, a favourite of many years’ standing. =184. The White Gipsy.= By ANNETTE LYSTER. (S.P.C.K.) 3_s._ A child picked up by gipsies after a railway accident, and bred up among them till recovered by his mother.