10 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 27

Messrs. Rontledge and Sons send us some more gay picture-

books for young children :—Walter Crane's Noah's Ark Alphabet, with an admirably drawn and coloured head for every creature; Walter Crane's Absurd A B 0, a volume of highly comic pictures ; Walter Crane's Baby's Own Alphabet, and The New A B C.—Tom, Tom was a Piper's Son (Warne and Co.) is illustrated with some very spirited drawings by Mr. W. Foster.