There are some pretty pictures, done by Miss Alice Havers,
in Cape Town Dicky, by Theo Gift. (Hildesheimer and Faulkner).—It is the story of a little boy who comes from South Africa to live with his relatives in England, and of how his cousins treat him. The colouring is delicately done, and the mezzotints are pleasing. The story itself will probably interest young readers, and shonld help to teach them some lessons of thoughtfulness and kindness.—From the same publishers we get The Star of Bethlehem, by Frederic E. Weatherley, illustrated by H. Ellen Edwards and John C. Sparkes.— There are some twenty odd poems, full of tender, religions feeling, and of no small literary merit. But is not "The Children's Home" imitated too closely from Adelaide Anne Procter's "Angel's Story "I' If it is a mere coincidence, it is a very curious one. A little beggar. girl watches a lame child in a rich man's garden
Once be had given her a flower, And how be smiled to seo Her this white hands through tho railings Stretched out so eagerly.
And that high-hornchilh and the beggar Passed homeward. side by side ; For tho ways of men are narrow. But the gates of Heav'n aro via."
—The Deserted Village (same publishers) has been worthily illus- trated by Charles Gregory, R.W.S., Frederick Hines, and Ernest Wilson.
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