The Play Hour Toy Book and The Jolly Toy Books
(Amal- gamated Press. Is. each). These books contain all sorts Of pictures for cutting out, and would' provide amusement in any nursery. The Puck Annual (Amalgamated Press. Os.). A book for small children, prettily got up and full of Short simple stories and pictures. Children of an age and temperament to like snippets, and find long stories a strain On the attention, will delight in it. Answers Annual (Amal- gamated Press. 6s.). If not exactly a children's book, it claims to include something to entertain every member of the family circle," and, we think, justifies its claim. The best .part of it—and it is a large best part—is taken up with home arts and handicrafts, gardening, bookbinding, &c. The Golden Annual for Girls (Amalgamated Press. 4s. 6d.). This is described as " The All Story Annual." Most little girls between eight and twelve would, we think, be very pleased to have this book as a Christmas present. The stories are about the daring deeds of high-spirited children with " hearts of The grown-up people, when represented by aunts, are worsted; and all the really naughty children punished. Herbert Strang's Annual (Oxford University Press. 5s.). Stands out among most of the Christmas books of its kind for boys, both in stories and in articles. Mrs. Strang's Annual for Girls (Oxford University Press. 5s.). Any prospective present-giver turn- ing over the rather thick leaves of this well-printed book of amusement and instruction will see much to admire. Some of the illustrations are really beautiful, notably those which adorn Miss Gertrude Bone's article on " The Interest of Woodcuts." Mrs. Strang's Annual for Baby (Oxford Uni- versity Press. 3s. 6d.). This annual is well suited to its purpose. _ purpose. The pictures are simple and pleasing, and cannot be torn. Mrs. Strang's Annual for Children (Oxford Uni- versity Press. 5s.). The word pretty " describes the pictures and the letterpress in this book for small children. It is a relief to get away from the tyranny of the comic annual, indeed from conventional comicality generally.
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