11 MAY 1867, Page 20

Our Children: Sketched from Nature in Pencil and Verse. (Dean

and Son.)—An unpretending little publication, the sketches having been taken for family amusement, and having gradually enlarged their circle of appreciative admirers. If it is oar duty as critics to find fault,. we are for once disposed to shirk our duty, or at the most to say that. the tribe of children peopling these pictures are too short in the noses. But they are very pleasant, playful little children, and we can cite a new household in which they have made themselves friends.