Nzw EorrioNs.—A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens. (Daily Chronicle Office.
5s. not.)—This is a well-printed and generally attractive reproduction of the Carol. Miss Ethel F. Everett's illustrations aro effective. Some of the subjects are easy enough ; it is by the others, the ghosts, to put it briefly, that an illustrator must bo judged, and these are, it seems to us, successful. The " white-sheet " business that satisfied an earlier generation will not do; we must have something more spiritual. —Uncle Remus : his Songs and his Sayings. By Joel Chandler Harris. (D. Appleton and Co. 6s, net.)—" A new and revised edition." Mr. A. B. Frost's illustrations are an attractive feature.—Messrs. Macmillan have published a number of cheap editions (1s. net per vol.) of notable books. These are At Last : a Christmas in the West Indies, by Charles Kingsley ; Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles, by Archibald Forbes; Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny, by W. Forbes-Mitchell ; Cawnpore, by Sir G. 0. Trevelyan ; North Italian Folk, by Mrs. Comyns Carr, Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott ; Tales of Old Japan, by Lord Redesdale ; Leaves from the Notebooks of Lady Dorothy Nevill ; and
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