Two children's magazines come to us, somewhat late for notice,
from the Religious Tract Society. These are, Our Little Dots : Pretty Pictures and Stories for Little Girls and Boys, and The Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor. In both the illustrations are noticeably good. The little pictures that are put outside to attract, we suppose, like the gaily dressed people who stand on the platform of a show at a fair, are ingeniously made with coloured silks. They are a novelty, and an effective novelty. The letterpress is doubtless well adapted to its purpose. But how about the title of the first magazine ? Would not a child that Could read resent being called a "dot"? —From the same pub- lishers we have also received Talkative Friends in Field, Farm, and Forest. By Mary E. Ropes.—Here are some amusing things, amusing and instructive also, put in verse and prose. Birds and beasts "confabulate" in despite of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and relate experiences which are not without a meaning for their human kinsfolk. This is a good little book, and prettily illus- trated.—Puff : an Autobiography. By Katharine S. Macquoid. (S.P.C.K.)—Here we have the story of what is commonly called a "toy terrier," a story not told, we may be sure, without many references to the superior creatures that own them, or are owned by them. 'Puff' has a very amusing story to tell.
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