13 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 23

Home Pictures. Written by G. Roddieh. Pictures by Woldemar Friedrich.

(S.P.C.K.)—The pictures are pretty ; the verses might be improved. Rhymes should rhyme, and lines should scan, however young the readers for whom they are intended. And why, we may ask, should the goat that would not draw the carriage (and goats are not beasts of draught), "go for some days to the stable, and stay there alone in the dark without corn P"—From the same publishers we also have Pictures and Rhymes for Holiday Times. Pictures by L. V. Kramer, and Rhymes by R. P. Scott. These rhymes are quaint and pretty, the pictures not quite so mach to our liking as in the volume last noticed.