11 JANUARY 1890, Page 24

Our Dumb Companions. By Thomas Jackson. (Partridge.)— This new edition

of Mr. Jackson's wonderful collection of stories o' dogs, cats, horses, and donkeys is as good a present as could probably be made to a little child with a liking for animals. Mr. Harrison Weir's illustrations are themselves worth any amount of elucidatory letterpress. When the book was being prepared for a second edition, it might have been well, however, to have recast it in another form than the transparently unmeaning, if not misleading, one of " conversations."